Margrethe Vestager Quotes
Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.
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It's thriving, responsibly regulated business that does the research and development to provide the tools as well as the means to a better country.
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I like a girl with natural beauty.
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Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.
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Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.
