Anne Sweeney Quotes
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.
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I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
