Kirsty Coventry Quotes
Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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Mark-to-market losses are not real loss. It's a notional loss. What we can monitor is the credit quality of the underlying papers. Are the companies paying interest on time? Is there any deterioration in the credit quality of these companies?
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You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.
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Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
