Pierre Omidyar Quotes

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

Pierre Omidyar

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OpportunityPeopleHelpOwnership

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

Joanna Trollope

YouYoungOldWriterTooDefinitely

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

Robert J. Sawyer

GoodHeartSoulResearchWriting

As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.

Amanda Schull

LifeDanceThinkYouCareerKnow

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Ron Silver

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I was a very driven young person.

Rutina Wesley

PersonYoungDrivenVery

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

Liz Vassey

IntelligenceBrainsTurn-OnBiggest

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

Jules Verne

WorkHeartManWorldSurviveLiving

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

WorkGodBeginningEndYesYour

I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.

Johnny Flynn

PeopleMeThinkActingAnythingHow

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

Chris Martin

SongFindFirstOutInstinctMade

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

Alice Eve

SchoolParentsThinkFamousYouGo

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Plato

JusticeHelpNeedHerWould

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