Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.
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I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.
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I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
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It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
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I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
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It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
