Pierre Omidyar Quotes

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

Pierre Omidyar

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The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Andre Kertesz

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I feel very lucky, and the work that I do doesn't depend on much. If your vision's still good, and your hands - I have no arthritis in my hands, and I play the piano very easily - I don't think there's any reason to deprive oneself of the fun of working. Music is so rewarding.

John Williams

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.

Stewart Udall

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What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.

Tony Hale

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I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

Robyn Carr

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I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

Monica Ali

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I learned that deep within myself, if I fight to the end, I can always find a way to win.

Denis Shapovalov

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Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

Bonnie Raitt

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I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.

Apolo Ohno

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Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

Sylvie Guillem

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