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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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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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 would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.
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The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
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When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.
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Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.
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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.
