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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When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.
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Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
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'I will say this once.' Edward turned to the others. 'I’m in command on this mission. Do not, at any time, attempt to wrest control from me. If what you see dismays you, avert your eyes.'
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In a series, you have the luxury of time to establish the character and build a rhythm. In a TV movie, you've got to come up with the rhythm now. Right now.
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Entrepreneurs spend an inordinate amount of time inside of our own heads - thinking, analyzing, agonizing and obsessing over every little detail of our business. Sometimes, we need a break from ourselves. Meditation is a chance to let the thinking mind rest.
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Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
