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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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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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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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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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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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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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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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.
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The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
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I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'
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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.
