Joe Gebbia Quotes
In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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Kids can be annoying. Especially teenagers - oh my gosh. They can be cruel.
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I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.
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For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
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In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.
