Boards Quotes - Page 28

• I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

  Michael Moore

  Years, Office, Firsts

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• Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Significant, Sucker

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• We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Past, Data, Long

  "Facebook has only men on its board of directors" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. February 5, 2012.

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• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Stories, Shooting

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• After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

  Leon Panetta

  War, Fall, Cutting

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• The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

  Mike Pence

  Moving, Discipline, People

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

  Katy Perry

  Fun, Want, Honey

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• To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

  Rick Perry

  Thinking, Library, Cards

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• Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

  Robert Plant

  Theatre, Entertainment, Built

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• Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Ironing Board, Example, Want

  "Dan the man". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

  Keanu Reeves

  Reading, Firsts, Scripts

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• I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

  John C. Reilly

  Kids, Thinking, Games

  "John C. Reilly for “Criminal”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 7, 2004.

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• I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Design Work, Knowing, Stories

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• You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

  Joe Rogan

  People, Culture, World

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• If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Country, Islam

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.219, Random House

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• Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, People, World

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

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• The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

  Adam Savage

  Discovery, Ideas, Track

  "Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 08, 2008.

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• I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

  Howard Schultz

  Different, Ceo, Founders

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• Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Love, Relationship, Moving

  "Jerry Seinfeld: Heard the one about the reunion?". Interview with Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2009.

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• It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fun, Winning, Games

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

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• I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.

  Donna Shalala

  Together, Pieces, February

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• We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pain, Years, Morality

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• I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Kitchen, Together, Tables

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• At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Summer, Wall

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• I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Thinking, America

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