Pierre Omidyar Quotes
Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.Pierre Omidyar
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Hip-hop is a vehicle.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann -
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
Sadie Frost -
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
Carine Roitfeld
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
Wayne Dyer -
Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
Patrick Kane -
No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
Rachel Brosnahan -
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid -
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville -
Harvard is the home of American ideas.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips -
I like game shows.
Oscar Nunez -
Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
Abby Wambach -
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
Barbara Corcoran
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As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.
Gemma Ward -
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
Laura Mvula -
There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
Gary Busey -
It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.
Charlie Sykes -
Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.
Pierre Omidyar