Meghan Daum Quotes
Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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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 want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
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In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.
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Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.
