Carol Bartz Quotes
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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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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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.
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I look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.
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I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
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It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.
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Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.
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