Nancy Wilson Quotes
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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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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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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
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The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
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Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.
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I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.
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There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.
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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
