John T. Chambers Quotes
I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
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There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
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Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.
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Both in verse and in prose Karl Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody’s hair stand on end; he is always crying: 'But he hasn’t any clothes on!' about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There are all these books and inspirational speakers talking about being a lifelong learner, and it's so great to reinvent yourself, the brand of you. And I wanted to say, you know, it's not like that. It's actually really painful.
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I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.
