Cynthia Lord Quotes
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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My track record speaks for itself.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
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Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
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New friendships break pretty easily if something goes wrong at the beginning.
