Drew Houston Quotes

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.

Drew Houston

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I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

John Coltrane

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When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

Amelie Nothomb

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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Sinclair Lewis

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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

Michelle Dockery

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It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

Joseph Brodsky

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Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Brian Kernighan

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In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

Phyllis Smith

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Rod and I are naturally in love, and that is what binds us together. But to keep the spark alive in your relationship, you really have to work at it.

Penny Lancaster

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For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

Paul Wolfowitz

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I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Richard C. Armitage

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You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

Richard Dawkins

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