It’s the world that's messed up, and it’s the world’s twisted view of what beauty should be. They need to change, it’s never you.
Danielle Sinay, Teen Vogue, 13 September 2016 source ↗
The question
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?Originally asked
Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014
Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."
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Ephraim Asili
Filmmaker, Educator, and DJ
I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.
Jensen Huang
Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
So I think that what people misunderstand is somehow the best jobs are the ones that bring you happiness all the time. I don’t think that that’s right.
Arlo Parks
Singer-songwriter and poet; Mercury Prize winner
I want to be a voice for the kid. I mean, it sounds quite contrived, but I want to make music that I would have wanted to hear when I was 14.
Alice Sheppard
Dancer, Choreographer
I understand my definition does not meet most people’s definition of disability.
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View profile →The only concert I’ve ever really been to was (to see) a prepubescent Justin Bieber many years ago. I remember looking into the crowd. It felt like every girl wanted to be on stage because they wanted to just touch Justin Bieber…. All the girls wanted to be with him, I feel, but I just wanted to be him in that moment.
Yes, for a lot of my life actually. It’s always been something I’ve struggled with, even now. My relationship with sleep and nighttime has affected me in so many ways, in more ways than I knew. So, I decided to write about it.
I don't write as often as a lot of artists I know. I save [my songwriting] for a period of time, so I bank up a lot of ideas and a lot of feelings, and then, not even necessarily on purpose, it becomes an album.
That's always been a tough thing. I've always struggled with staying present and not worrying too much about the future or the past. I'm always either dwelling on the past, or missing the past, or worrying about the future. So that's been a big challenge, because this type of lifestyle goes extremely fast.
People think that to be a pop star you have to look a certain way. I want to show people that there’s an alternative.
To just chill out and not worry. Growing up, I worried about every little thing. I was like, "oh I'm not good enough, I'm not confident enough, I'm not pretty enough, I'm not this and that." I would cry about my appearance, and cry about a bunch of things that don't matter to me now. I would just say, the stuff that matters now won’t matter in a few years, and just chill out and enjoy your life.
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