Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I do have a bit of a fear of heights. But I don't get scared of heights when I am flying a plane.
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You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.
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If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.
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I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
