George R. Roberts Quotes
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances McDormand
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
V. S. Naipaul
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Vernon Duke
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
Bebe Rexha
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
Lance Ito
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
Ingvar Kamprad
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Eckhart Tolle
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
Ferid Murad
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
Laura Dern
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
Baz Luhrmann
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
Randi Weingarten
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
T. Harv Eker
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
Ted Cruz
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
Gary Oldman
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
Ike Skelton
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I think there's an innocence to me.
Krista Allen
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We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.
Meg Whitman
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I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.
Margaret Hamburg
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In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.
Warren Farrell
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Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.
George R. Roberts