Meg Whitman Quotes
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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The precondition to freedom is security.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
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Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
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The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
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Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
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Work is at the core of human dignity.
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Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
