Ali Babacan Quotes
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when interest rates rise. Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds.
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Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.
