Ory Okolloh Quotes

The idea that either individuals or organisations are 'too big to fail' or that the tech and start-up sector is somehow different is wrong.

Ory Okolloh

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WrongFailBigTechDifferentIdea

Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.

John O'Keefe

BestWorldLearnLondonTaxiGet

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

Jean-Luc Godard

OthersConvinceSomethingLikeHe

I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point.

Sophie Winkleman

LoveWorldVoiceDoingBackRadio

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Sri Aurobindo

LifeAgePowerLightIgnoranceLost

Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes... I would dress preppy.

Michelle Phan

BeautyEyesDressBlueWorldTall

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

FatherThinkHurtYouGoSoon

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Jose Marti

VoiceJudgeLibertyEnemiesBecause

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

Alison Gopnik

ExperienceImpossibleCareSayTrue

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

William Robertson Smith

ReligionPeopleRulesPlaceAntique

Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers were non-wettable.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

TimePeopleThoughtBeingCommon

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

Peter Capaldi

OverDisasterGotOver ItCinematic

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

Peter Carey

BookSomeoneNewWantDamnAlways

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