Tony Fadell Quotes

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

Tony Fadell

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WorkWifeFunMeCrazyKind

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

Robert Stigwood

MoreMuchDevoutConvertCatholicism

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Andy Warhol

BusinessBestEmployeesYouAlways

The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.

Amiri Baraka

GodTimePoliceDeathManMe

The town formerly known as St. Louis is now 'Defiance.' The scope of the show and game is going to be massive because you have the people who love the genre of gaming who love sci-fi; they're in bed together, normally.

Tony Curran

LoveTogetherPeopleGameYouNow

It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

Tom Rath

WorkSacrificeSleepWeekBadMore

One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.

Ruth Reichl

FoodBackGoCheapNeedFlavor

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Rush Limbaugh

WorkPeopleStupidThinkYouWhy

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

Milton Berle

HusbandFeelInterestingKnowLike

I think on 'ER,' my other long-running show, I had some ideas about what's going on. 'Stargate Universe,' they were kind of secretive too a little bit about what they wanted to do, but I kind of liked working this way. I like the surprises, and I like knowing just enough to work on the character.

Ming-Na Wen

WorkCharacterIdeasThinkUniverse

They're my best friends. We think of Gigi as the brains in the family - something most of the world doesn't know - and my favorite thing about Bella is that she's a free spirit who never lets anyone set limits for her. They can be really protective, but they've taught me not to let other people define what I'm capable of.

Anwar Hadid

FamilyBestPeopleMeWorldThink

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

Tyra Banks

SmileEyesCultureWalkingAmerica

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

PatienceMeansRestraining

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