Audrey MacLean Quotes
Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.Audrey MacLean
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
Barbara Corcoran -
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
Aaron Huey -
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard -
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
Gaby Hoffmann -
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Sam Kinison -
Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
Harold E. Hughes -
My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma -
This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
Gary Johnson -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
H. Rap Brown -
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
Frances Beinecke -
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor -
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
Carli Lloyd
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Over the years, we have gone beyond our businesses to take up philanthropic projects in diverse areas - from education to health care to skilling.
Chanda Kochhar -
When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.
Jamila Woods -
What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura -
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
David Rockefeller -
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
Walter Mosley -
Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.
Audrey MacLean