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Ruth Porat Quotes

I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1957

Topics

Hate Balance Think Us Trap I Think

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

You Want Wheel Company Might Invent

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

Understand Mars Little Agree Venus

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music Desert Think You More Closer

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Women Ascend Careers Later Plateau

When I go into a boxing ring, I'm willing to die.

Die Go Boxing Ring Willing

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

Politics Down Tell Different Stories

The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life?

Life Experience Men You Early 1920s

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

People Ideas Think Say Want Okay

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

Life Business People Know Say Quit

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Always Over May Being Denied Really

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Friend Me Band Turn Started Mine

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Phillip E. Johnson

Life Nature Science Confident Rules

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