Anne Sweeney Quotes
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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My education was very tough.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
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Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.
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I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.
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In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
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I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
