Drew Houston Quotes

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

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• We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Regret

• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Perfect
  • Knowing

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Day
  • Sex
  • Everyday

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Racism

• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Matter

• Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Freedom
  • Lose
  • Comfort

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Why
  • Age

• To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Understand
  • Realize

• My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Politics
  • Involved

• Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Time
  • Children
  • Bad

• War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War

• «Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Decision

• In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Business
  • Miracle

• There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Different
  • Game
  • Hypocrite

• I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Movie
  • You
  • Attention

• Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Money

• I've been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base, which is worldwide, and it's incredible how big it's gotten. People really enjoy these records.

  

  John 5 LOSER
  • Enjoy
  • Records
  • Instrumental

• If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

  

  Drew Houston