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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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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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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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life. We should be more balanced than that and give people a chance to understand what the government should and should not pay for.
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Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
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Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
