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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • American
  • Parents

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Why
  • Black

• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • My Life
  • Financially

• 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.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
  • Simple

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• 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.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Liberty
  • Step
  • Tyranny

• Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Season

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Book
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• 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.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• I'm not a god - I do bad things.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Bad
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Like
  • Characters
  • Films

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Dog

• I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• As the saying goes, the most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Science
  • Discoveries
  • Eureka

• I hardly ever go to the movies.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Movies
  • Go
  • Ever

• People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • College

• 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.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Important
  • Successful