Patrick Collison Quotes

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

Patrick Collison

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TimeHorizonYouStopDifficult

When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.

Joe Jonas

LearnMeetTryAlwaysSomethingFan

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

Joanna Lumley

MotherRespectCatsFishEarlyMean

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

John Ortberg

PeopleSpeakMotivationFeelHigh

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.

Tom Irwin

CharacterRealityTryingYouPage

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

Tom Stoppard

WorldHumanBeing HumanRightsBeing

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

Roger Daltrey

MeKnowComfortableFaults

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.

Ruggiero Ricci

StyleYouKnowImportantEveryone

Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

Mike Myers

LoveFatherCultureGrowing UpWorld

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

Martina McBride

GoodSportsSchoolSmallHigh School

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

Jason Calacanis

ControlThreeSittingOverHere

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

Jared Kushner

AgeTruthDayJournalismRightLeft

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

ConfusedAlwaysBoundariesWriter

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