Kevin Systrom Quotes
Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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I'll be very clear about this: I'm not a fan of getting rid of Dodd-Frank.
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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
