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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Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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Sometimes I have a sense of what I'm seeing being a small fraction of what's there. Not always there, but probably more often than I realize. Something will come up, and I'll realize I'm thinking about the world a little differently than my friends.
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It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.
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Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
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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.
