Tyler Winklevoss Quotes
Our business isn't to be famous: that's not what we do; that's not what we strive for.
Quotes to Explore
-
The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
-
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
-
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
-
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
-
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
-
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
-
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
-
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
-
The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
-
Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
-
When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
-
In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
-
It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
-
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
-
What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
-
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
-
While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
-
To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
-
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
-
The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
-
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.
-
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.
-
Our business isn't to be famous: that's not what we do; that's not what we strive for.
