Jan Koum Quotes
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.
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I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
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We have reached the bottom of the 9th inning, and now it is happening, what we normally experience at any ballpark when a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the hometown fans come to root for him. He has come too far, he has journeyed too long to drop it.
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As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.
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Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
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It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
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My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.
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Whenever I'm with you, I'm home.
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Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.
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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
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I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
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We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
