Jan Koum Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.
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Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'
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How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
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My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.
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What did I care anymore about his political opinions, about Pasquale and Nadia, about the death of Ulrike Meinhof, the birth of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the electoral advances of the Communist Party? The world had retreated. I felt sunk inside myself, inside my flesh, which seemed to me not only the sole dwelling possible but also the only material for which it was worthwhile to struggle.
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.
