George Voinovich Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
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Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
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The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
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There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.
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The best money I made was panhandling.
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I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.
