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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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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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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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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If we look at India and the Indian demographics and the Indian consumer, I think the Indian consumer is going digital, social, and mobile. They want everything in a digital format, everything available on the go, and we socially connected.
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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In politics, victory is never total.
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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.
