Alexis Ohanian Quotes

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

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• As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Night
  • Science

• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

  

  Dane Cook
  • True
  • Professional
  • Dreams

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Up
  • Short
  • Chubby

• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Discipline

• When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Me
  • Control
  • Loved

• According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Singing
  • Start
  • Grandmother

• Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Everything
  • Difference
  • More

• Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Yourself

• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Rest
  • Authority
  • Analysis

• Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Thoughts

• The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sun

• Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Success
  • Failure

• Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

  

  Confucius
  • Danger
  • Thinks
  • Learns

• Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Protect
  • Prison
  • Capitalism

• For me, I think that, certainly, the fact that Las Vegas has a gambling aspect to it is far overshadowed by the entertainment value, if you will, family appeal, that you have, the convention appeal. So it does not have disfavor with me, in my opinion, relative to being an NFL city.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Family
  • City
  • Value

• Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

  

  Alexis Ohanian