John T. Chambers Quotes
What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
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What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.
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When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this.
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What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
