Janet Yellen Quotes
It seems to me that women have made an awful lot of progress, but they probably remain underrepresented at the highest levels of most organizations, for a variety of reasons. And it's probably going to take a long time to change that.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
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The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.
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As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.
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When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
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I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
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My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job!
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I really like raw connections, and so I've always had a harder time in politics because I feel there's a lot of veneer around everything.
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Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.
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My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.
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Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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It seems to me that women have made an awful lot of progress, but they probably remain underrepresented at the highest levels of most organizations, for a variety of reasons. And it's probably going to take a long time to change that.
