Patrick M. Byrne Quotes

I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.

Patrick M. Byrne

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FocusThinkWallBlockchainRoom

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

Jimmy Sangster

LifeEnjoy LifeEnjoyToo MuchOut

We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.

Andrew Lansley

HealthPeopleStartTreatSmoking

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Anita Hill

WomenCommunityValueThinkProtect

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Martin Winterkorn

AmbitionFaceProblemEntrepreneur

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

Martti Ahtisaari

I AmPeopleThoughtsThinkLong

Would I tweet if I didn't run for office? Maybe, but I'd certainly use Twitter to stay abreast of warp-speed happenings in the world and to enjoy the musings of smart, fascinating people. Twitter is a neat, one-stop compilation of smart, incisive viewpoints on every imaginable topic from a riveting cross-section of folks.

Don Willett

SmartPeopleWorldEnjoyRunOffice

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Dick Van Dyke

RadioWantedAnnouncer

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Douglas Brinkley

PeopleSayEditingNeverThingsHe

When you think Selena Gomez, you think 'celebrity.' But really, she does so many things for me. She's very caring. Before she goes on stage, she's a goofy girl. She's fun-loving and totally lovable, which I say in the most honest way. She's not even a celebrity to me; she's just a really cool person.

Christina Grimmie

GirlCaringMeCoolThinkYou

Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

OpinionNegativeYouCubaExploring

As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.

Susan Shreve

HopeHistoryChildBookProcessOwn

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Sean Lennon

PeopleTryingArtistOutSellMeans

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