Pierre Omidyar Quotes

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

Pierre Omidyar

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Want
  • Feel

• One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Change
  • Helping
  • Looking

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Learning
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Great
  • Political
  • Water

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Blind

• Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Passion
  • Universe

• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Wrong
  • Allow

• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• I can't cook to save my life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Stupid

• I have a wonderful respect for old people.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • People
  • Respect

• The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

  

  John Boyd Orr
  • War
  • History

• My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Age
  • Father
  • Sad

• I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • People
  • Hope
  • Stop

• If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • People