Mary Barra Quotes
It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a little time on the weekend to step away from it and enjoy my family and other things. I come back energized. If people think they're going to work 24/7, week in and week out, they're not bringing their full strength to the table.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
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On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
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I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!
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A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.
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It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a little time on the weekend to step away from it and enjoy my family and other things. I come back energized. If people think they're going to work 24/7, week in and week out, they're not bringing their full strength to the table.
