Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.
