Kevin Systrom Quotes

Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood.

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• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that's sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Red
  • My Life

• I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Why
  • Me

• A little man often cast a long shadow.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • Man
  • Shadow

• On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Experience
  • Leader
  • Chinese

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Need

• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Life
  • History
  • Woman

• I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Going

• And it's run for the rosesAs fast as you canYour fate is deliveredYour moment's at handIt's the chance of a lifetimeIn a lifetime of chanceAnd it's high time you joinedIn the danceIt's high time you joinedIn the dance.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Time
  • High
  • Dance

• The invention of photography has made the painter and the patron lose interest in the likeness and transfer it to some more formal pattern. Our whole sensibility has been re-created by such subtle shifts.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Photography

• Sic rerum summa novatursemper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt. augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantumet quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.

  

  Lucretius

• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Power
  • Help
  • Purpose

• Most everybody's got seed to sowIt ain't always easy for a weed to grow, oh no.So he don't hoe the row for no one.Oh for sure he's always missing.And something is never quite right.Ah, but who would want to listen to youKissing his existence good night.

  

  James Taylor
  • Good
  • Night
  • Missing

• The Medici created and destroyed me.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Done

• I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Period

• We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Computers
  • Video Games

• I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions.

  

  Ben Cardin
  • American
  • Couple

• One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wife
  • Firsts
  • Cat

• Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Intuition

• All the healthiest countries don't eat a lot of tropical fruits. They stay away from pineapples, mangos, papayas, and melons and focus on fruits that have edible skin, edible seeds, or are citrus fruits.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Fruits
  • Tropical fruits
  • Healthiest countries

• Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood.

  

  Kevin Systrom