Jan Koum Quotes

I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Thought
  • Childhood
  • Fact

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Experience
  • College
  • Road

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• I'm just basically a workaholic.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Just
  • Basically
  • Workaholic

• I think a great athlete transcends eras.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Athlete

• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Music
  • Real
  • Identity

• That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Know
  • Easy
  • Comfort

• I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Think
  • Career
  • Cooking

• Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Fun
  • Partner
  • Best Friend

• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • History
  • Game
  • Team

• I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • Little
  • Directing

• We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Love
  • Honor

• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Choice
  • Very

• 'I only remember one part of the service,' he said, 'and that is 'And the body shall be cast into the sea'. So cast it in.'

  

  Jack London
  • Remember
  • Service
  • Sea

• I am not a refugee. I sought refuge for many years, but the word 'refugee' does not define me. It just limits me and puts me in a box.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya

• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Water

• To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Real
  • Dance

• Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Long
  • Technology
  • Management

• I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

  

  Jan Koum