Neera Tanden Quotes
We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where driverless cars are going to take over. Like, how are you going - it's gotten really, how are you going to have a job in 10 years, and how are your kids going to have a job in 10 years, if you haven't gone to college or had a lot of hand-ups in the system, basically.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
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A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only have $5 to spare.
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We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where driverless cars are going to take over. Like, how are you going - it's gotten really, how are you going to have a job in 10 years, and how are your kids going to have a job in 10 years, if you haven't gone to college or had a lot of hand-ups in the system, basically.
