Meetings Quotes - Page 28

• No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

  Ronald Reagan

  Time, Insomnia, Matter

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Jail, Voice, Movement

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• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

  Tony Robbins

  Opportunity, Preparation, Luck

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 03, 2015

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• I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.

  Kid Rock

  Years, People, Trying

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• I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

  Veronica Roth

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• I just hate meetings.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hate

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• I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Intelligent, Games, Mets

  "The Bookers' favourite". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

  Paul Ryan

  Health, Thinking, Government

  "Remarks by The President In Discussion of the Deficit at Bipartisan Meeting on Health Care Reform". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 25, 2010.

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• I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Real, Tv Shows

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• The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.

  Will Self

  Writing, People, Fiction

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• Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

  Shel Silverstein

  Reading, Journey, Years

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• If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Agreement, Giving, Decision

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• I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

  Kim Smith

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, People, Listening

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• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Coffee, Kids, Community

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

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• I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'

  Britney Spears

  Crazy, Kissing, Boys

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• An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

  Johannes Stark

  Positive, Negative, Atoms

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• The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

  Kristen Stewart

  Twilight, Insane, Want

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Hollywood, Mets, Treated

  "The Arrow" Interview, www.joblo.com. June 1, 2002.

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• I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Years, Hollywood, Half

  Interview with The Arrow, www.joblo.com. June 1, 2002.

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• The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

  Maurice Strong

  India, Development, Months

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• Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

  David Suzuki

  Oil, Priorities, Energy

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• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  Taylor Swift

  Years, Careers, Choices

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• When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

  Taylor Swift

  Decision, Able, Management

  "Taylor Swift Wears the Pants". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.

  Tim Tebow

  Fields, Competitors

  "NY Jets' Tim Tebow sits down for EXCLUSIVE interview with Daily News, talks Mark Sanchez and life as a backup quarterback". Interview with Manish Mehta, www.nydailynews.com. October 26, 2012.

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