Donald Barthelme Quotes
The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.Donald Barthelme
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff -
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk -
Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
Rakul Preet Singh -
There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
Ram Shriram -
I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
Tawakkol Karman
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
Baron Hill -
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
Safra A. Catz -
Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
Narendra Modi -
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
Fat Joe -
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent -
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
Nadine Velazquez -
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Tabare Vazquez -
I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
Randeep Hooda -
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
Danica McKellar -
We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
Uday Kotak -
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
A. J. Liebling
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold -
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
Jeff Fitzgerald -
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
Ovid -
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.
John C. Maxwell -
The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
Donald Barthelme