Chirlane McCray Quotes
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.Chirlane McCray
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
Walt Mossberg -
I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
Tadashi Yanai -
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Daniel Dennett -
It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.
David Harewood
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I don't think I would run for president.
DJ Khaled -
I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.
Marion Cotillard -
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
Daniel Handler -
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
Sheryl Crow -
You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.
Chuck D -
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
James Meade Kutless
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To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that binary.
Astro Teller -
'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.
Matt LeBlanc -
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda -
Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.
Jason Pierre-Paul -
I suppose I’ll have to clean up Freddy’s brains; I hate to leave a mess for the home owners. Hand me that plastic bag; I need to put it over his head to keep him from leaking. Oh, relax, Freddy; I’ll tear an airhole for you.” - Mercer
Rachel Caine -
I've really got no complaints.
Bill Engvall
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I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.
Nikky Finney -
As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.
James Gray -
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
Chirlane McCray