John T. Chambers Quotes
I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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I'm cranky.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
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My brother, Toby, is six-foot-six, and he went to Vassar; my other brother, Brown; my sister, without one penny from me or my stepdad, NYU Law, number one in her class-Jesus, it's such a functional family, I don't know where I came from.
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I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
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I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.
