Andrew Forrest Quotes
I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
Andrew Forrest
Quotes to Explore
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My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
Patrick Kavanagh
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
Nancy Gibbs
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
Zach Anner
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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Consider how many times you’ve seen either a crashed plane or a crashed car. It’s entirely possible you’ve seen roughly as many of each—yet many of those cars were on the road next to you, whereas the planes were probably on another continent, transmitted to you via the Internet or television. In the United States, for instance, the total number of people who have lost their lives in commercial plane crashes since the year 2000 would not be enough to fill Carnegie Hall even half full. In contrast, the number of people in the United States killed in car accidents over that same time is greater than the entire population of Wyoming.
Brian Christian
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Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
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Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
Andrew Forrest
