Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
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Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.
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Life is warfare.
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.
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Despite my divorces, I still believe in marriage, and I have believed in all my marriages, although maybe not the one with Sylvester Stallone, as I was really pressured to marry him.
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It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
