Brian Chesky Quotes
The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
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Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
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St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.
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There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
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The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.
