Kevin Systrom Quotes
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to sustaining the dynamism of our economies with the Trans-Pacific Partnership - the highest-standard trade agreement ever - which will support trade and innovation in both our countries.
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I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.
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My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.
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I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
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The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
