Nikki Jean (Nicholle Jean Leary) Quotes
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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I was brought up by my mum and my sister. I've always been around independent women; I like that. Anybody who's a fake I don't like and I don't talk to.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
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But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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Παῖδες γὰρ ἀνδρὶ κληδόνες σωτήριοιθανόντι.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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For me the information has to remain incredibly neutral. It's what I would call 'ice-like' information. I receive very rapid impressions. I don't have to sit there and concentrate. Because, if I start to really focus, my conscious mind begins to apply data, which is not accurate.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.
