Melanne Verveer Quotes
The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
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The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life.
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I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
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Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.
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In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.
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It's a relentless regime with 'Misfits.' I'm actually a little bit nervous of it, because I know it's going to be so tough to film, but we have a good crack at it.
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I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
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What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
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The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
