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Reid Hoffman Quotes

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 5, 1967

Topics

Government Wise Problem Right Most

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

Me Stand Doing Person Everything

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

Work Great Myself You Sometimes

In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.

Home Christian House Shout Strict

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

John White Geary

Men Sacrifice Authority Personal Own

I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.

Think Grow You Actor Thrown Then

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

Character Challenge Think Done Never

The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.

Together Job People Mission Done

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

Character Think Doubt I Think Every

The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. Their indifference to us ought to serve as a chastening reminder that we're not the measure of all things.

Jonathan Franzen

Beauty Value Birds Measure Never Us

I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

Douglas Brinkley

King Think Down Go Will Movement

Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn't you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.

Good Happiness Money Day Sleep You

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics Practice Organization Always

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