Elizabeth Diller Quotes

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Hard
  • Weg

• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Education
  • Proud
  • Basketball

• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Fire

• I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Like
  • Something
  • Sell

• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Time
  • Inspire

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Media

• When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Government
  • Wants
  • Presence

• The audiences love to see me fight on screen.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Fight
  • See
  • Screen

• 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

  

  J Mascis
  • Bones
  • Some
  • Kick

• Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Free
  • Someone
  • Loving

• I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Fighter
  • France
  • Russia

• Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Women
  • Violence

• When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

  

  Amanda Crew
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Different
  • Exercise