Meg Whitman Quotes
Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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'I feel strong in challenges, believing that personal improvement and fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both negative and positive experiences.'
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SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
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Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.
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It must be fun to be you And play with love as you do To treat each new romance As merely one more dance Or just another book to glance through It must be fun to acquire Whatever heart you desire, And when you're bored with it To tear it in two, It must be fun to be you.
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What I would love, instead of being a role model, is being someone of inspiration.
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I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
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That’s what I wanted to do. You know, 2 hours. It’s like long-distance running or playing in a football game when you totally run out of steam and the moves you make after you run out of steam, because you’re totally unselfconscious, you’re not even thinking about the mechanics anymore. The moves you make then are incredible.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
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Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.
