Nancy Wilson Quotes
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern problems, modern tools. Like, we're not all just talking Taoism and kung fu - some people are just trying to get over their breakup with their boyfriend, and they're Facebook-stalking.
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Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.
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We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.
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It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
