Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Parker

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

Jonathan Shapiro

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

Joey Skaggs

I realized early on that the business of art was the antithesis to the creative process and I decided to circumvent the traditional art market.

Tim Morgan

It is the antithesis to community. You're telling me I have to pay for my school based on the impact I'm having, why then should I support bond referendums in the future to pay for a school on the other side of town?

Trent Reznor

one that was the antithesis of 'The Fragile,' which was complex. Songs flowed into each other, and it was layered. This record I wanted to be as stripped down as possible. I wanted it to be more real, more organic, not overly fixed or chopped up. At the end of the day, it reminds me of 'Pretty Hate Machine.'

Suzy Menkes

I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and make - to last. I originally stored away things like Ossie Clark because I could not bear to part with such treasures.

John Clayton

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

Don Tapscott

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted.

Tony Buzan

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Nandan Nilekani

Going forward, we expect revenues to cross the two billion dollars mark at 2.14 billion dollars by March 2006.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

James Wolfensohn

I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Pramod Mahajan

I think whenever you are communicating to one billion people, you should bring more and more clarity on what you think.

Shane Filan

Kevin Spacey was pretty cool - very funny. And meeting Pope John Paul II was special.

Brian Lucas

Kids today expect their toys to be functional. They don't want a toy laptop, they want something that actually works and does cool things.

Graham Elliot

I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things the weirder the better. The idea I could eat things like snails or frogs legs or things like that was mind-blowingly cool.

Graham Elliot

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.

Suki Waterhouse

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.

Mike McCue

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

Rita Ora

Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!

Billy Pate

He's a great player and an interesting guy. He's not like a lot of guys, out there screaming and yelling. He's passive and quiet, one of the most humble guys you'll meet. He never loses his cool and always gives us a fighting chance.

Dan Dougherty

He's always cool under pressure. He's always been that way. He was trying to stay calm, and I was going crazy.

Jon Gruden

It could be a few weeks. It could be the end of the season. We don't know for sure. I'll just sit here and wait until I'm told the extent of this injury.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Jackie Speier

In terms of transparency in total compensation, we need to look at what's a reasonable number, and to what extent it's appropriate.

Laura McDowell

They do work to an extent in smoothing things out, but you have what you have.

Wendelin Wiedeking

When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.

Ned Collins

With the market's oversold condition, a small rally is expected. The extent has surprised everybody.

Sherry Jeffe

Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.

Stacy Palmer

As people see the extent of the damage, they're likely to keep giving in big ways.