Brian Chesky Quotes

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Brian Chesky

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• When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.

  

  Edi Rama
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Work
  • Win

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Future
  • Simple

• Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Country
  • Money
  • Support

• The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Back
  • Prime
  • Geology

• I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Movie
  • Want
  • You

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Pressure
  • Rise

• I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.

  

  Halsey
  • Life
  • Home
  • Guy

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I had time to learn about, and I knew my game, before I entered the Test arena.

  

  Allan Donald
  • Game
  • Learn
  • Entered

• As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

  

  James T. Walsh
  • Peace
  • Vision
  • King

• I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, ‘Why Be a Meaningful User.’ Over time, however, I found that working with health IT made me a better and safer physician. Most importantly, my patients received better, safer care and improved outcomes.

  

  David Blumenthal
  • Meaningful
  • Patient
  • Outcomes

• Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Vision