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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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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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 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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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.
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My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.
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Everything is real on me.
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I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
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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.
