Joe Gebbia Quotes

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Joe Gebbia

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• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• I have the strange ability to shut things out.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Strange

• The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Health
  • Single

• I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Want
  • House

• I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Up
  • Job
  • Book

• 'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She

• Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Political
  • Practice

• The soul of man may be divided into two parts; that which has reason in itself, and that which hath not, but is capable of obeying its dictates.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Reason

• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Forever
  • Travel

• I love theater. I really want to go back to it.

  

  Ben Hardy

• I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Character
  • Military
  • Honor

• The crux of the matter was... the partnership between Richemont and myself was going sour for personal reasons, and you know, you can't have two people arguing all the time, so it was either my buying him out or him buying me out.

  

  David Tang
  • People
  • Time

• I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Lost
  • Travel

• I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Art

• It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Suffering

• A recipe I've seen work in early-stage startups is a small tight-knit group of passionate people who are obsessed with their vision of how to fix a particular industry. Conversely, teams composed of people with a lot of specialized experience at running a large business are not as likely to do very well in the first year or two of a startup.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Kill
  • Programming
  • Specifications

• As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Risk

• You have to know what your users are experiencing.

  

  Joe Gebbia