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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It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
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I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.
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The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.
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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.
