John T. Chambers Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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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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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.
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The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.
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During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.
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You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.
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To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.
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I think Mr Trump is going to be a good president.
