Megan Smith Quotes
I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
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They can't ban or burn Larkin's books. What they can embark on is the more genteel process of literary demotion.
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It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
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At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
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The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
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I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
