Michael Otto Quotes
One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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Most hacking incidents that you see are freelancers - maybe government sponsored, maybe not. They are out there trying to steal intellectual property, make some money. Or they might just be hackers who want to damage something for whatever reason. That's a fact of life that internet companies deal with all the time.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.
