Madeleine Albright Quotes
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I will open an era of grand national unity.
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I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.
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'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.
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If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
