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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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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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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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
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I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.
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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.
