Jan Koum Quotes

I want to do one thing and do it well.

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• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Effort

• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Encouragement

• January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Kind
  • Travel

• The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Pop Music

• I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Success
  • Excited
  • Far

• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Act

• I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Have
  • Obsession

• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Words
  • Friendship
  • Solitude

• If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • People
  • Children
  • Hope

• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Beginning

• One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• I'm pro Union.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Union
  • Pro

• Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Grateful
  • Student
  • Delightful

• I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Lost
  • Proud
  • Judge

• The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Sense

• A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • World
  • Roots
  • Violent

• 25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Trying
  • Night

• I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Good
  • Job
  • Age

• I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Breathing
  • Sleepers
  • Fluttering

• I want to do one thing and do it well.

  

  Jan Koum