Wyomia Tyus Quotes
I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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The Internet is crazy, and I love it!
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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I'm a good friend.
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In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable - let alone a smarter - alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.
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It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.
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I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
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There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.
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I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.
