Joe Gebbia Quotes
We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I studied Morse code.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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I wear a lot of different jewelry. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.
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I definitely think, when you're a teenager, it's more forgiving to talk to strangers and go up to people at a mall or whatever.
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I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
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We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.
