Beth Comstock Quotes
Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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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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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
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You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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We used to have a tax in this country called the Estate Tax, which was very popular, because it's a tax on very, very, very rich fucks who die. And people thought, 'That's a good person to tax.' And that is a good person to tax! Because rich fucks who die should give away their money, or else they give it to their ne'er-do-well kid who becomes Uday Hussein.
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Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
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Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.
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Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.
