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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.'
-
I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
-
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
-
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.
-
I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
-
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
-
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
-
I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
-
You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
-
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
-
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.
-
You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
-
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
-
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
-
I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
-
Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
-
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
-
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers.
-
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.
