Meetings Quotes - Page 26

• Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Growing Up, Talking

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• And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

  Frank Gehry

  Ties, People, Stuff

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• I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Magic Kingdom, White

  "Gingrich on Obama's Disney Speech: Which Cabinet Post Will Goofy Get?". Newt Gingrich's speech to a crowd of about 500 people in the theater at Magnolia Hall, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

  Barry Goldwater

  Doe, Diplomats, Succeed

  "Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook".

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• With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Children, Exercise

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

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• Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Fun, Rocks

  "Artist to Know: Ellie Goulding". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2011.

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• I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

  Billy Graham

  Faces, Looks, Anticipation

  "Billy Graham Holding Last Event in the U.S." by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2005.

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• I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

  Matt Groening

  Mother, Father, Character

  "Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  Sammy Hagar

  Brother, Writing, Feet

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• I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

  William Hague

  Believe, Commitment, Growth

  "William Hague tells ministers to help green industries boost economy" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Attention, Conventions, Greetings

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• Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

  Hunter Hayes

  People, Achievement, Spirit

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• My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.

  Robin Hayes

  Two, Different, Rural Areas

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• I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Travel, Development, Film

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• Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Space, Infinity, Dimensions

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1979). “Discourses of Iqbal”

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• An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Politics, Association

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.394

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• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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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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• I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, People

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• I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Actors, Intimidation

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• I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Guy, Parent, Insanity

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• You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, People, Ego

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• Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

  Dalai Lama

  Important, Messages, Harmony

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• There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, Dad, Party

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• Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

  Annie Lennox

  Long, People, Support

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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