Jenny Shipley Quotes

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

Jenny Shipley

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As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

John L. Flannery

WorkCultureThreeNeedCompanyUp

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

Jeff Bridges

WorkMeTryFarChoosingReally

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

Amy Heckerling

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I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Mary J. Blige

PerfectionPlaceWayNeverWhere

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Michael Ledeen

EvilRealTyrantsWellKnewFull

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!

Mireille Guiliano

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You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.

Liz Phair

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Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

Boyle Roche

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I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.

Anton Corbijn

WorkJoyMeMovingBetterUnknown

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

Allen Iverson

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My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.

Wilson Cruz

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'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

Peter Guber

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