Joe Gebbia Quotes

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.

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GoodMistakesYearNeverFirstSize

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

John Hawkes

ChanceImpactYouSeeingKnowActor

I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.

Andrew Forrest

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The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.

Megyn Kelly

FearPowerThinkLookElectionNeed

I didn't want my daughter to grow up in that intense attention - wherever we went, we'd get paparazzi. There are bigger, better superstars in America, so I thought, 'I'll go there for a quick holiday, and relax.' And my holiday just turned into me loving it and wanting to stay there longer and longer.

Mel B

DaughterMeRelaxThoughtBetter

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

Matt Damon

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To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Michael Franti

GovernmentGivingBackWrongWant

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

John Shelby Spong

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I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.

Srikumar Rao

HappinessFocusEndGoal

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.

Toni Servillo

MusicMyselfMeTheatreThinkYou

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

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I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

Little Richard

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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Jonathan Franzen

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