Douglas Conant Quotes
The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.
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He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
