Yvon Chouinard Quotes
Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.Yvon Chouinard
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
M. J. Rose -
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer -
An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
Federica Mogherini -
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker -
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
Zach Anner -
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
Jack Schwartz -
I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
Ursula Andress -
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton -
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
Zadie Smith -
Smoke machines are the best!
Gail Carriger
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov -
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
Dan Gertler -
I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
Nathan Lane -
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Ramakrishna -
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba -
I work very hard at my game.
Oscar Taveras
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I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.
Robert James Ritchi -
If you can find a better car, buy it.
Lee Iacocca -
Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.
Keith Olbermann -
Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
David Guetta -
I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
James Young Styx -
Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.
Yvon Chouinard