Joe Gebbia Quotes
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
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The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
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The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Airbnb is about travel.
