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Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically.

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Women
  • Best
  • Path

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Age
  • Like
  • Feel

• Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • People
  • Men
  • Happy

• My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Thought
  • Kid
  • Tough

• The interweb's got a weird vibe.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Weird
  • Got
  • Vibe

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Myself

• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Home

• If this acting thing doesn't work, I'd just put in my resume for NBA.com. I'm a really huge basketball fan... I'll talk all sorts of trash.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Basketball

• Colonial possessions added to the prestige, and to a much lesser degree to the wealth, of Europe. But the primary cause of Western affluence and power is internal – the institutions of science, democracy, and capitalism acting in concert.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Power
  • Science
  • Democracy

• All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Question