Bozoma Saint John Quotes
Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.'
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The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
