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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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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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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It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.
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I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.
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When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
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Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.
