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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Me
  • Respect

• '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.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
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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.

  

  Katarina Witt
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• I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

  

  Gary Sheffield
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  • God
  • Live

• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
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  • Baby
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• I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.

  

  Patricia Riggen
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  • Change
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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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.

  

  J. A. Jance
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• You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.

  

  Zendaya
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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.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• All the women in my family were superb cooks.

  

  Randy Wayne White
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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.

  

  Ralph Merkle
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• The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.

  

  Jackie Collins
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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.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
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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.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
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  • Engagement

• We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.

  

  Naomie Harris
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  • Food
  • Bread

• If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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• America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.

  

  Neil Sedaka
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• If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

  

  Frank Cady
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• We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Men
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  • Experience

• We need to stop defining Boeing's future based on a single program or two programs, and we have been doing that with the fighter story. It doesn't mean it was wrong or right; I just don't think it represents the great diversity of the Boeing Defense portfolio.

  

  Leanne Caret
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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.

  

  Janet Yellen
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