Brian Chesky Quotes

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Brian Chesky

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• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Me
  • Because
  • Table

• For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Life
  • Done
  • Nature

• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Memory
  • Writer
  • Without

• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Interested
  • I Was Raised

• I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Speak
  • I Can

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Age
  • Father

• I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Career
  • Singing

• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Done
  • History
  • Science

• When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sports
  • Fans
  • Him

• An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Miracle
  • Extraordinary

• When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Creative

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Up
  • Always
  • Beer

• People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

  

  Charles Dance
  • People
  • School
  • Education

• There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • Time
  • Space
  • Rest

• I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Reason
  • Feels

• For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Believed

• Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

  

  Brian Chesky