Caroline Ghosn Quotes
I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.
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Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
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I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.
