Meetings Quotes - Page 24

• For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

  Conrad Black

  War, Destiny, Leader

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• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Understanding, Mind

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

  Mary J. Blige

  Hurt, Reading, Contracts

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• Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

  Bono

  Defense, World, Homework

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• Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Unique, Ideas, People

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Assembly, Century

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• In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Expectations, Challenges

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• I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

  Eli Broad

  Party, Museums, Three

  "The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking".

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• As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Balls, Rooms, Realizing

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.142, Bantam

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• I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Nice, Artist, One Day

  "Exclusive Interview: Sandra Bullock and Alfonso Cuarón Discuss Gravity". Press Conference, www.biogamergirl.com. October 8, 2013.

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• If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

  Tim Burton

  Choices, Nappies, Studios

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• Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Courage, Concern For Others

  First Radio Address following 9/11, delivered 15 September 2001

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• When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.

  Nicolas Cage

  Years, People, Boss

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• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  David Cameron

  Fall, Taken, Self

  "David Cameron's EU speech - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Order, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money. It's really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.

  Drew Carey

  Fun, Giving, Happy Place

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• And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

  Duane G. Carey

  Selfish, Sight, Views

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• When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

  Jackie Chan

  Two, Sometimes, Hours

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• Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say "their life" I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

  Dave Chappelle

  Mean, People, Interest

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. July 7, 2006.

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• Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Ideas, Hearing, Problem

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.120, Take Root Media

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• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Knowing

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• When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Europe, Firsts, Slave

  John Henrik Clarke (1993). “African people in world history”, Black Classic Pr

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• I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

  John Cleese

  People, Lists, Seems

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• I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Long, People

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