Brian Chesky Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
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Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.
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Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
