Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
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Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.
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Be yourself.
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The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.
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Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
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Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
