Chip Conley Quotes
I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
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It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.
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I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
