Ruth J. Simmons Quotes

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

Ruth J. Simmons

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Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

UnderstandListenReplyIntent

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Troy Polamalu

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I've always been a gypsy.

Robin Leach

AlwaysGypsyBeen

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details have to be, have, you know, to go through a long list of them and tick them. I'm not saying that's not important in fiction, but I think you have a bit more leeway; you can suit yourself.

Ronald Frame

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Swarm intelligence is like a brain of brains.

Louis B. Rosenberg

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There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

Jarvis Cocker

DepressionManFamousYouSayWrite

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

Cheech Marin

WantHispanicWhoEvenSpanishSome

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

Christopher Dawson

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Your confidence is destroyed when you find out you can't trust people.

Anne Reid

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Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

Annie Lennox

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There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them.

Allison Schroeder

WomenPeopleYouDownSayBarriers

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

Ali Fazal

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