Jenny Shipley Quotes

What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.

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• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Years
  • Process
  • Chinese

• I actually like football a great deal.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Great
  • Football
  • Like

• I love all things Christmas.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Things
  • Christmas

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Information

• I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Like
  • Cheat

• I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Think
  • Said
  • Regret

• No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Fun

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Best
  • Feels

• Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Tired
  • Uncertainty

• It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Kind

• The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • People
  • Music
  • Problem

• When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Imagination
  • Doing

• I did most of my schooling in Miami.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Most
  • Did
  • Miami

• My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Children

• We often hear that mothers do the caring; fathers just do the playing. This is a false dichotomy - even a dangerous one - because fathers’ particular style of play involves both a conscious focus on teaching and, as the research is now showing, is instructive to children even when it is not consciously designed to be so.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Style

• I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.

  

  Darren Star
  • Hope
  • City
  • Amazing

• Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Long
  • Texas
  • Economists

• It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Green
  • Blue
  • Rose

• What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.

  

  Jenny Shipley
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  • Women