Jan Koum Quotes
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
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With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where you see the truth.
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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
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'The fellow with a face rather like a walnut.'
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‘Don't you like this hat?‘‘No, sir.‘‘Well, I do,‘ I replied rather cleverly, and went out with it tilted just that merest shade over the left eye which makes all the difference.
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As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
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As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.
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If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.
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Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
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A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
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It's not that I don't like other people - I do. I just don't like me.
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
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When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.
