Bill McDermott Quotes
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I love to perform live.
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I put up some great numbers.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?
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I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, 'He did it right and he stood up for what is right.'
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I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
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Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
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When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.
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Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
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Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.
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At SAP, we see a dream for a simpler world, for a simpler SAP, and for a simpler customer experience.
