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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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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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 hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.
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Stand-up is a weird animal. There are people who really want to know what you think about things, your opinion on life. But then there are people who think you're just that beautician in 'Legally Blonde,' who doesn't have opinions on anything. Or that I'm Stifler's mom and hot for it all the time.
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People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.
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Glad my name came up. Thank audience, mentor, all who made my workplace enjoyable.
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There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.
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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.
