Mary Barra Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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First appearance deceives many.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
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Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
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My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.
