Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
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The truth is that a campaign defines how the electorate will see their president - and this all the more true when shaping the president's image in the eyes of the largest constituency that will actually not vote for them: the international community.
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Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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I want to do something that can support all the people in Korea and the world who see us and are inspired to do their own thing.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
