Brian Chesky Quotes
I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.
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I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
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I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
