Neil Blumenthal Quotes

At Warby Parker, we ask ourselves a number of questions when deciding whether or not to partner up with a designer, or a nonprofit or brand. Is the potential collaboration new? Is it unexpected? Will it result in something worth talking about over dinner? Will it do good? Will it introduce us to a new audience?

Neil Blumenthal

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Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Andre Geim

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The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.

Anna Kendrick

MusicHellWantIndustryShadyJust

I never will watch a meet that I don't do well in. I just don't like to.

Aly Raisman

MeetWillNeverWatchWellJust

You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you've given them some good stuff to navigate with.

Amanda de Cadenet

GoodHopeBestPeopleYouKnow

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Simon Conway Morris

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A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.

Roger B. Taney

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It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

Robert Wilson

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So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

Ruth Ann Minner

GoodPizzaYouWillPromiseMinutes

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

Martin Rees

CommunityAmericaPresidentFirst

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

Jay Hernandez

GoodMyselfMeThinkPressurePush

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Jason Mraz

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It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.

Dennis Bergkamp

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