Joe Gebbia Quotes
Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.
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Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
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To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective expertise, we are able to investigate national security threats that cross both geographical and jurisdictional boundaries.
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We will also discuss the role of women in the Church. Remember that the Church (la chiesa) is feminine.
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
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Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.
