Patrick M. Byrne Quotes
There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Life's picking up speed.
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It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.
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When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
