Carol Bartz Quotes

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

Carol Bartz

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FunnyMeLadyChickenGrandmother

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Jim Rohn

MenMeBelieveThoughtNowSee

When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.

Jim Beaver

DayMeGoKidSeeHigh

I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.

Maxine Peake

TogetherMeLeisureOutWatchTake

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

Robert Harris

PeopleThinkYouFindManagerWrite

My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings.

Andy Kindler

MorningPeopleWake UpHurtGoalUp

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

I AmConfidentI CanCountryNow

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Stephan Pastis

BestChanceLongYouKindOdds

The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.

Michelle Grabner

EducationGoodArtDaySchoolWin

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

Mona Eltahawy

RacismWorldProblemJustEgyptian

If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date, you're going to have an awful lot of copies out there in time for that. You'd have to be simple-minded not to do that - although bookselling prior to 1950 never made that connection.

Michael Korda

TimeBookYearYouConnectionKnow

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

Missy Peregrym

BeachWeekPlayThreeVeniceEmpty

I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.

Bruce Braley

LifeExperienceSimpleThinkFarm

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