Hillary Clinton Quotes
I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that were to be served, and I think there was a real wrong turn about 20 to 25 years ago when the theory began to be promoted that your highest duty - in fact, some would argue, your only duty - is to maximize shareholder return. I just don't buy it. And it wasn't the original underpinnings of the legal theory of corporate law.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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I guess you've just got to take it because there is always going to be negative criticism and positive. But I think both of them can make you stronger.
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When something's over with me, it's over.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that were to be served, and I think there was a real wrong turn about 20 to 25 years ago when the theory began to be promoted that your highest duty - in fact, some would argue, your only duty - is to maximize shareholder return. I just don't buy it. And it wasn't the original underpinnings of the legal theory of corporate law.
