Eva Pigford (Eva Marcille Pigford) Quotes
The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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When we consider carefully what many of our so-called humanists stand for, we find that they are not humanists but humanitarians.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
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Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.
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The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.
