Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes
I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.
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I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'
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To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.
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I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.
