Aaron Levie Quotes
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't do it because the computers weren't fast enough, so they gave it a roof, which became the iconic one. Ironically what we do now is basically what they envisioned in the first one but couldn't do technically. I mean this a full on homage in every aspect.
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I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?
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I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.
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Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
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We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
