Bob Wright Quotes
As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
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Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
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To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.
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Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.
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My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
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As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.
