Pierre Omidyar Quotes
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
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And I think Americans are phenomenal people.
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You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.
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An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.
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You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
