Patrick Collison Quotes

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

Patrick Collison

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GoodProgressBelieveHumanityBack

I've noticed that women are always punished for their sexuality in popular culture.

Jill Soloway

WomenCultureAlwaysSexuality

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

Mel Torme

MoneyTalkingYearYouTellGoing

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

Angelina Jolie

LifeFamilyLiveMomentStartYou

Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater economic and political democracy for greater numbers of people.

Sidney Buchman

MyselfPeopleDemocracyCommunism

No pope ever condemned slavery.

Joseph McCabe

SlaveryPopeEverCondemned

I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.

Dianne Reeves

GreatPeopleMeCookbookCookAsked

I grew up in a hippy town, so I did my playing outdoors and skiing and all that, but then I also had my nerd friends that I went and hosted LAN parties with, get my 'Counter-Strike' on.

Thomas Middleditch

SkiingOutdoorsFriendsUpPlaying

My choice growing up was the 'Star Wars' role playing game. At that time in the Nineties, they had a pretty robust pen and paper system.

Thomas Middleditch

TimeGrowing UpGamePenChoiceUp

Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.

Tim Matheson

ComedyClassMasterBallWorking

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.

Rick Perlstein

VotingSecurityModernPopulation

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

Linus Roache

LifeLiveDaySpiritualWeekYou

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

LeRoy Neiman

LifeBestExcellenceManPeopleGo

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