Pierre Omidyar Quotes

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

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• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Changed

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Know
  • Few

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • You
  • Politics
  • Policy

• Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Job
  • Experience

• A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Spirit
  • Audience
  • Enthusiasm

• After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Rejection

• If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Day
  • Like
  • Tomorrow

• I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Teaching
  • Appreciative

• I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Been
  • Four
  • Seasons

• I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Never

• I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Like
  • Combination
  • Tastes

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • May
  • Bad
  • Hope

• I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.

  

  John Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • People
  • Done
  • Help