Bozoma Saint John Quotes
Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
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Sense will always have attractions for me.
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I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
