Patrick Collison Quotes

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

Patrick Collison

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An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

Jimmy Johnson

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One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem.

Robert Osborne

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First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Michael Chertoff

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I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

Amy Sedaris

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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

Tom Chatfield

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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Mary Martin

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I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

David Shields

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If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.

Austan Goolsbee

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Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Wim Wenders

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It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Paul Vixie

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

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We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

Norman Lloyd

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