Nancy Leveson Quotes
Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Politics ruins the character.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.
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Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
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I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.
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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
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Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women become The cities, children become the fields And men in waves become the sea.
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We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
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Once your network has lost confidence in you, you're headed for the dustbin of history.
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Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.
