Maureen Chiquet Quotes
Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
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There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.
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It's not your business to decide if a woman you love should, or should not, marry you. It's her business. Tell her all about yourself and leave the decision to her. God knows it's trouble enough having to make one's own decisions in life without having to make other people's too.
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When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
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Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.
