Pierre Omidyar Quotes
What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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My fans have been so great. I'll go on fansites and read messages they put, and they all seem like really nice people.
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If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.
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Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
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She rarely saw priest-and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God-and was not the earth His work, and a church only man’s?-but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.
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What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.
