Douglas Conant Quotes

All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.

Douglas Conant

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NatureBestPeopleMindYouKnow

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

John C. Calhoun

FearCompetitionLongMeetingMeet

By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

Jerry Della Femina

FunnyBusinessArtJobCreative

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

Melissa Bean

EnvironmentalEnergyMoreProtection

I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

Mekhi Phifer

BlackWhiteUpCubanHarlemGrew

I find women more interesting to watch on a lot of levels, and I like the idea of being involved with something I would watch.

Max Minghella

WomenInterestingFindMoreWatch

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

John Linder

ProudAmericaAchieveWillYears

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

Ann Bancroft

FearVoiceReachLookSaidBecome

We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions.

Amitava Kumar

TiredLearnThriveDifferencesFind

My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

Amal Clooney

HopeWarNameBornI Was BornMeans

I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.

Soren Skou

NobodyPredictNeverFreightRates

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

Stewart O'Nan

CarLegendLineTeenagersPlot

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

Janice Dickinson

BeautifulYoungNeverModelFelt

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