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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Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.
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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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Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
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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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I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
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We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
