Jan Koum Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I would like to direct.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.
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It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.
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Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.
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The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".
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Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
