Taavet Hinrikus Quotes

While in two very different sectors, both Skype and TransferWise were born out of frustration.

Taavet Hinrikus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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  • Nationality: estonian
  • Birth: 1981

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FrustrationBornTwoSkypeOutVery

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Michael Emerson

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We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

John T. Chambers

WorldInternetChangedManyWays

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

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I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

Stockard Channing

UncomfortableCelebrityHonestRather

Misclassification is a serious problem in construction as well as other industries, and it is exacerbated by increasingly fissured employment structures where work is contracted and subcontracted away from the core company.

Tom Perez

WorkConstructionProblemSerious

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

Michael Moore

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When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

Jason Reitman

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Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Jasper Johns

PowerSpacePaintingUnderstandMost

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Donal Henahan

MusicBrainListeningResultHuman

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

Drake

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'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead' is one of the most underrated films. There were even different cuts of it. A wonderful film.

William Forsythe

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I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

Suzanne Farrell

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