Drew Houston Quotes
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
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When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.
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There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry.
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We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
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I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.
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Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
