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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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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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
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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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There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.
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I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
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There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.
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I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music.
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
