Joe Gebbia Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
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My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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We know our future's not guaranteed, so every day, we have to relentlessly pursue additional actions to drive our competitiveness.
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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The story of Airbnb is really the underdog story in many ways.