Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes
You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
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When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
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As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
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You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.
