Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
I think my background, coming from Iran, which is a great country but is going through its share of troubles, really allows me to appreciate what we have here.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.
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The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators. (p. 205)
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There have been great champions in every generation.
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60 percent of Syria is controlled either by ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations, organisations that have been recognised as terrorist by the United States, as well as other countries and the UN. It is them and not anyone else who have control over 60 percent of Syrian territory.
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I think my background, coming from Iran, which is a great country but is going through its share of troubles, really allows me to appreciate what we have here.
