#om

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. ↗

— Sean Parker

#become #being #billion #cool #dollars

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. ↗

— Sean Parker

#easier #i #i think #just #more

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free. ↗

— Sean Parker

#end #free #gotten #guess #i

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world. ↗

— Sean Parker

#becomes #believe #could #end #facebook

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity. ↗

— Sean Parker

#creepy #good #look #necessity #today

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. ↗

— Sean Parker

#around #bonds #break #came #conform

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. ↗

— Sean Parker

#builds #bureaucracy #comes #inevitably #revolution

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#comes #highest #indispensable #kind #religious

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that. ↗

— Tony Parker

#bisexual #body #complicated #i #lesbian

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed. ↗

— Tony Parker

#am #biggest #career #difficult #digest