Erskine Bowles Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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I'll never put my memoirs in print.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the air and the light which vary continually. For me, it is only the, surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
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I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.
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Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
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Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.
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I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
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Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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We don't have a deal, we've made some progress.
