Kevin Systrom Quotes
It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
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Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
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Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
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To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
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The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.
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I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.
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We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.
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Whate’er he did was done with so much ease,In him alone 't was natural to please.
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[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
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I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
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It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.
