Natalie Massenet Quotes
In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.
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I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.
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I grew up playing football and baseball.
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You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.
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That one difference between animals and humans is that humans rarely admit to themselves what it is they really want.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
