Joe Gebbia Quotes

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• In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Moon

• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Party
  • Learning

• My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Perfect
  • Old
  • Jeans

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Planet
  • Save
  • Actually

• I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Books
  • Fact

• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Experience
  • House
  • Research

• 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Special

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experience

• A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Woman

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Life
  • Family
  • Experience

• Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Broken

• When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Love
  • Things
  • Vitality

• I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at all. That means one should be able to speak openly about everything at meetings and conferences. It shouldn't be that we can't discuss the killing of journalists in Russia, or the suppression of human rights, or all the warning signs surfacing in Russia because of oil and gas or other economic reasons. It's a big problem, but it's the same in Western relations with Arab states.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Human
  • Friendship
  • Russia

• Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.

  

  Andrea Suarez Paz
  • Drugs
  • Mexico
  • Illiteracy

• People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

  

  Pete Carroll
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• Airbnb is about the nexus of the online and offline to create the perfect customer experience.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Experience
  • Perfect