I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
John Oliver
Recitation: by Male by Female
The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.
Jochen Zeitz
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I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.
Andrea Bocelli
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I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
Andrew Cuomo
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So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
Robert Plant
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I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.
Steve Jones
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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
Diplo
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I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.
Douglas Tompkins
SocietyDoingNobodySomethingStuff
I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman?
Dawn Richard
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My first retailer was Saks Fifth Avenue. I didn't even know how to ship a box to a retailer. Like, how do you pack it? How do you send it to make sure it gets on the floor? You figure it out as you go along.
Christian Siriano
ShipYouGoKnowFirstBox
I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.
Alice Waters
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Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.
Poo Bear
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My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.
Susanne Bier
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