Kevin Systrom Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.
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I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.
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That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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