Douglas Conant Quotes
You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.Douglas Conant
Quotes to Explore
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
Victoria Pratt -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith -
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane -
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain -
We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
Naomi Klein
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine -
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
Nas -
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
Sami Gayle
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie -
I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
Aaron Tveit -
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
Ian MacKaye -
Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
Beanie Sigel -
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
Rachel Cusk -
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate
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Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.
January Jones -
I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up since I've been in the Senate.
Lisa Murkowski -
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
Clyde Tombaugh -
The next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.
Paul Krugman -
People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.
Judy Garland -
You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.
Douglas Conant