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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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
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To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.
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Grace has helped me to see that there are shades of gray. That no one out there is either "flawed" or "flawless" and that it's as dangerous to think that someone is perfect as it is to think he or she is poison. Grace has taught me how to be more guarded when appropriate and how to practice patience before judging myself or others too harshly.
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We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
