Nancy Brinker Quotes
I would like to think that my 25 years of helping to lead a movement and give shape to it and building a rather large nonprofit corporation, serving on many corporate boards … would serve as background for this job.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
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How'm I doing?
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
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We don't work with anyone.
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What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
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Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.
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Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
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If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
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I would like to think that my 25 years of helping to lead a movement and give shape to it and building a rather large nonprofit corporation, serving on many corporate boards … would serve as background for this job.
