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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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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Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.
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I would rather be working than be on vacation. Always.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
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In life, you're supposed to get wiser, so as an actor, even just through your own life experiences, you're already richer as a person and have more to pull on. And this job is great for the places it takes you to, the things it makes you interested in and the skills you get to learn.
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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.
