Alexis Ohanian Quotes
I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
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I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.
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My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.
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I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.
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But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
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I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.
