Jim Talent Quotes

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

Jim Talent

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Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company - Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.

Joe Lonsdale

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Jerome K. Jerome

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I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.

Jennie Finch

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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

Melinda Gates

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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

John Pomfret

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A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.

Ron White

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I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Mike Nichols

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Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

Derek Walcott

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For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

Colson Whitehead

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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

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I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.

Lynsey Addario

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