Reem Acra Quotes

Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl's dream.

Reem Acra

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GirlDreamBarbieInspirationAlways

I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'

Joanna Lumley

AmbitionThoughtDoingEnoughCareer

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

John Jay Chapman

PoliticsWorldThoughtAlwaysYears

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.

John Wesley Powell

WordsIdeasThoughtsThoughtProblem

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Tom Scholz

KnowWantNewspaperBigMagazineTV

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Robertson Davies

LovedNeverBooksWhoWantedReally

For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6 to 15 years old, and it sort of cross-pollinates with other kids in my neighborhood. It fuses their experiences with what was going on in my life.

Rodney Crowell

LifeStoryMy LifeOldKidHouston

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

LiveWorldUsedFunctionAble

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Russ Feingold

TeaAmericaPartyUpBeingEnded

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Mason Cooley

SuccessSatisfiedOrdinaryFailures

The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it's a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn't understand that distinction is they'll want to recreate too much of what's on TV.

Jason Blum

SomeoneYouToo MuchWantUnderstand

Usually I don't comment on comments of others.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block.

Deval Patrick

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