Ursula Burns Quotes
Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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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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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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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've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.
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The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
