Claude Maxwell MacDonald Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.
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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
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In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
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Opportunity is a bird that never perches.
