Elaine Chao Quotes
Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.
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It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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An empty throne always tempts me.
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It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.
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Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.
