Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
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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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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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This love is silent.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.
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I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
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There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered.
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
