Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
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That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
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If you're going to sign a contract, there are things you have to understand you might have to do. If you don't, then you walk away.
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
