Rebecca Traister Quotes

By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.

Rebecca Traister

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Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

Jennifer Egan

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Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

Andy Garcia

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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

Andre Leon Talley

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I've got an extreme bias toward governors... they know what it's like to make hard decisions. They know what it's like to actually balance a budget - have a budget, first of all, and have a balanced budget.

Matt Mead

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The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.

John T. Chambers

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I'm a healthy person.

Amber Riley

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I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Tom Hanks

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When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd.

Robin Sloan

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By the time I graduated from high school in Vancouver, I already had a whole support network set up for me in Los Angeles, so I just moved down.

Jason Priestley

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I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

Jason Reitman

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Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

Jon Taffer

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