Chip Conley Quotes
When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
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I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
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For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
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I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
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When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
