Grant-Lee Phillips Quotes

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Grant-Lee Phillips

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YouBitternessKindNothingMore

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

Andrew Forrest

SlaveryWorldYouMatterOverTurn

India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish - and sometimes rats.

Amitava Kumar

TeaSmallFishRoyaltyLuxuryYou

This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.

Steven Levy

VisionIgnoranceGeniusEarlyNew

Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.

Travis Kalanick

TimeCultureTogetherProudBuild

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

Ron Fournier

RedRoadThreeBullRed BullCream

Production is something I've never come to terms with.

Robyn Hitchcock

NeverProductionSomethingCome

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

Michel Hazanavicius

BoringObsessionOnly

Airlines are very competitive.

Lucio Tan

CompetitiveVeryAirlines

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

BuildingYouNewWonderfulCannot

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

Jason Blum

GreatJobMeWorldProudOut

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Dennis Weaver

SupportBordersEconomyWithinOwn

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.

Bono

SonGodPeopleBelieveYouFind

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