Kevin Systrom Quotes
I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
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Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.
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When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.
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I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
