Mary Callahan Erdoes Quotes
You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
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I love a black wedding dress.
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I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.
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I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.
