Drew Houston Quotes
The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
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The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
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Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
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A lot of celebrities have a sense of humor, and combined with an outrageous event, sometimes the sky's the limit!
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The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.
