Ursula Burns Quotes
The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the existing print marketplace, or that it's difficult to do in the existing print marketplace.
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If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.
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'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'
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When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.
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You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
