Eileen Pollack Quotes

Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.

Eileen Pollack

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SuccessCultureCoolGenderPhysics

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

Jim Parsons

BestDoingYouDramaWayMean

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Melinda Gates

WomenTimeMenPastWorldFocused

I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

Matt LeBlanc

LifeLiveWaitingPeopleMeTreat

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

Steve Erickson

MemoryFaceLossYouHeSuspended

I thought food and drink were just part of the perks of living at the White House. The next day, I got a call from his secretary saying my dad wanted to see me in the Oval Office, and when I got there, dad was waving this little pink receipt. I didn't know it came out of his salary.

Steven Ford

FoodDayMeSayingPinkThought

I take my responsibilities very seriously.

Roger Goodell

SeriouslyTakeResponsibilitiesVery

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Mitch Albom

StyleYourselfValueWritingYou

If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.

Lui Che Woo

ChangeExperienceRisksConfident

A falcon is the perfect hunter.

Jean Craighead George

PerfectHunterFalcon

Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.

Jason Fried

PeopleSmallSellingTwoTakeKinds

Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.

Jose Ferreira

WorkBestCitizenshipWrongStop

It's been a dream of mine to play for the U.S. national team.

Christian Pulisic

TeamDreamPlayMineBeenNational

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