Kevin Systrom Quotes

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• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Political
  • Vote
  • Become

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Time
  • Light
  • Comfortable

• More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Effort

• I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Success

• I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Think
  • Day
  • Emotional

• If we penalize mothers for denial of 'visitation time' we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for 'visitation time.' The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with - divorce.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• So much one man can do,That does both act and know.

  

  Andrew Marvell

• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Cleverness

• Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Work
  • Help
  • Nature

• Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Children
  • Heart

• I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Funny

• Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Running
  • Party

• Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Women
  • Design

• When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Beginning

• The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.

  

  Mike Harding
  • People
  • Sunday
  • Humorous

• As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Art
  • Imitation

• Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

  

  Steve Ballmer
  • Great
  • Leaders
  • Companies

• For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Long
  • Together
  • Perfect

• 'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months.

  

  Kevin Systrom