John T. Chambers Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.
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I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many where I've just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.
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Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.
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If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.
