Jan Koum Quotes

A lot of companies are global.

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• It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Character
  • Fun

• It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I actually like football a great deal.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Great
  • Football
  • Like

• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Clothes
  • Old
  • Lady

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Nice
  • Party
  • Cool

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

  

  Jack Warner
  • America
  • Best
  • Week

• Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Light
  • Style
  • Creativity

• Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Game
  • Best

• The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Freedom
  • Beginning
  • Process

• People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Think
  • Struggle
  • Swimming

• I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Chance

• Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Harmony

• There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.

  

  John W. Rogers, Jr.

• I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Thinking
  • Stuff
  • Would

• I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

  

  Jasmine Guinness

• A lot of companies are global.

  

  Jan Koum