Brian Chesky Quotes
Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I get homesick.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
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Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.
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There are so many times when I think I don't have time to dance, but I force it into my life because I know it's so important.
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Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
