Pierre Omidyar Quotes
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
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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.
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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.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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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.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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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.
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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.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.
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I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
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I'm standing for real freedom.
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I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
