Meg Whitman Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
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I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
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I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
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Most of us can't even begin to imagine.
