Jan Koum Quotes

We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.

Jan Koum

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GoTouchGrandparentsBuyKeepKids

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Joe Klein

LifeYouOwnTakeLikeYour

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

Joe Rogan

CulturePeopleWorldInternetYou

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Anais Nin

LifeMomentWriteTasteTwice

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

ChangeFreedomPowerImagination

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Tommy Bolt

SportsEnergyYouBackDownAhead

Trust, but verify.

Ronald Reagan

TrustVerify

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

FatherPeaceWarThingsAll Things

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

Dick Van Patten

GoodNew YorkSweetHelpNewNice

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

Corey Taylor

MusicPeopleBookYouWantWay

When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.

Clint Smith

FearBlackSayMatterOthersWorthy

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.

Bobby Davro

ThinkRightEverythingTidyJust

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

Alicia Silverstone

LifeDogGirlMeThinkWeird

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