Jan Koum Quotes
I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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He has given me several blockbuster albums in all these years, and DSP is the man behind many of the best songs in my career.
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Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
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If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
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I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.
