Jan Koum Quotes
The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I started out doing musicals.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of intrigue and action, but the parkour takes the story to another level. It was an absolutely incredible experience, working with experts from all over the country.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.
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Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
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While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
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The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.
