Dominic Holland Quotes

It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever.

Dominic Holland

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I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Jim Barksdale

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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Maya Angelou

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London Fashion Week has always been very special to me.

Matthew Williamson

MeFashionWeekSpecialLondonBeen

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Maureen Forrester

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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Stephen Gardiner

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When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

Tracy Letts

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Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.

Tony La Russa

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I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Tom Clancy

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When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Ronda Rousey

ChangeWomenMenThinkSayTrue

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

Don Novello

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Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Bob Filner

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