If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because… — Johnny Rivers Copy Share Image
“My penis is looooooong. Wait, I think I left off an O. Probably better that way, so I can use it as… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning.… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that… — Tim Page Copy Share Image
The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once… — Greg Wise Copy Share Image
Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding… — William Scranton Copy Share Image
When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new… — John Roos Copy Share Image
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the… — Roelof Botha Copy Share Image
So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you… — David Soul Copy Share Image
I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
This initial experience has not lived up to our expectations... and it is not acceptable. While these problems will require a lot… — Marilyn Tavenner Copy Share Image
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I… — Kim Swift Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
When you first see MacGruber working on the bomb, in the initial opening credits, that bomb was a replica of the 'Die… — Jorma Taccone Copy Share Image
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in -… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
