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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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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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 had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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My best friend is my husband.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.
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My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
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You should read a crowd like you read a magazine.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
