Ethel Waters Quotes
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
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I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.
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I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.
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I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
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I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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I'm not just saying this because I'm in the movie, but I really would recommend 'Secretariat.' It's fun, inspiring, and it's a great movie to take your little kids, brothers, sisters, or nieces and nephews to see that actually has real people in it and not animated characters.
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
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I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
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I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.
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There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
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Without foundations, there can be no fashion.
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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right erson, and for the best reason.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
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We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
