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I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's change this.'

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Good
  • Know
  • Election

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• I seemed to have been born reading.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Reading
  • Born
  • Been

• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • You
  • Stop
  • Day

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Think
  • Idiot
  • Computers

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Real
  • Marriage

• More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Effort

• As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

  

  Fritz Sauckel
  • Boy
  • Sailing

• It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  

  George Eliot
  • Words

• When Coleridge said that all men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians, he was saying that all men tend to be either acoustic or visual in their sensory bias.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Men

• I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's change this.'

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Men