Pierre Omidyar Quotes

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

Pierre Omidyar

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I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.

Jessica Marais

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Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.

Matthew Desmond

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I use M.A.C. Brow Gel to bring out my eyebrows, then I curl my eyelashes every morning and apply M.A.C. Sheen Supreme Lipstick in Venomous Violet with my fingers - I use it as a lip balm multiple times throughout the day because I hate having bare lips.

Jeanne Damas

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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

Amy Tan

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

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'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.

Roma Downey

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I reject most conventional wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

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We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

Josh Turner

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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Joseph Chamberlain

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When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.

Doug E. Fresh

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Being closeted often put me in situations where I couldn't concentrate or even think straight.

Chelsea Manning

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