Joe Gebbia Quotes
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.
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I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.
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I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.
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The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
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By helping New Yorkers turn their greatest expense - their home - into an asset, Airbnb is a vehicle that artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators can use to earn extra money to pursue their passion.
