Boards Quotes - Page 27

• Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Hurtful, Tourism

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• Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cities, Feet, Forests

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• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  Rahm Emanuel

  White, People, House

  "Rahm blames McCain for bringing up race" by Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. August 27, 2008.

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• I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Moving, Player

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• Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.

  Will Ferrell

  Mom, Brother, Sleep

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

  Anna Friel

  Love Life, Games, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Summer, Country, Jobs

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• Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

  Lou Gerstner

  Responsibility, Agency, Usa

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• I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Lakes, Perfect

  "Ellie Goulding talks style, music and why she loves Beyonce". Interview with Nerissa Pacio Itchon, blog.sfgate.com. April 26, 2011.

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• It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Glasses, Want Something

  "Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language". Interview with Vikki Valentine and Jon Hamilton, www.npr.org. July 9, 2006.

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• Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

  Hugh Hefner

  Religious, People, Letters

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• Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Boys, Views

  "Please, stop the Mark Zuckerberg love train" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

  Andrea Jung

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

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• During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Black And White, Achievement

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• You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Moving, Learning, Heart

  Newsweek, May 26, 1980.

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• You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Eating Together, Games

  "Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Who I Am, Giving

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• I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

  Annie Lennox

  Beautiful, Gay, Feminism

  "The world has become more sexualised" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Media, Ideas

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• The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Media, Creative

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• Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

  Phil McGraw

  Sports, Life Is, Score

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

  Cory Monteith

  Airports, Rome, Days Off

  "Fun Fearless Males 2011: Cory Monteith". Interview with Korin Miller, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2011.

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• It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Games

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• Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Needs, Movement

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