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Ruth Porat Quotes

If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruised and battered.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1957

Topics

Door You Going Get Just Leaning

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

Business Welcome Value Lottery Need

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

Mother Opinion Thought Generation Up

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

Sick Wild Things

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

Life Balance School People Ego Kind

The person who's had the biggest impact on my career is Rick Celebrini, the physiotherapist.

Impact Career Person Had Biggest

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

Nature Money People Look Generous

I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.

Success Money Happy Moments Career

I've gotten to jump into a lot of different things. And either being bold enough or dumb enough or naive enough to believe I could play them all, it's an exercise of self-delusion.

Believe Enough Exercise Dumb Play

Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find a way to just carry on. But you're stressed out. You're worried, you know.

Live People You Find New Know

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

Music Guitar Loved Sound Old Real

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

Good Amazing Credit You Nothing Out

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

Christian Louboutin

Life Work Tears Fashion Interesting

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