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

• 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

• 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

• Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Growth

• I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

  

  Arabella Weir

• My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Nice
  • Amazing
  • Fashion

• I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Heart
  • Girl

• A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

  

  Aristotle
  • Goal
  • Motivated
  • Good Habit

• To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Mother
  • Desperate
  • Human Life

• I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Alone

• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Reality
  • Opposition
  • Imaginary

• 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