Candice Olson Quotes
I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
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Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.
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Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
