Barry Silbert Quotes
That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.
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I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.
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I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
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That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain.
