Office Quotes - Page 25

• My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

  Cindy Gallop

  New York, Agency, London

  "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  Ed Gillespie

  Maybe Tomorrow, President, Today

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• Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

  Frank Gaffney

  Expression, Rights, Demand

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• Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

  Gordon Gee

  Political, President, University

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• Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Water, Indifference, Testing

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• When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Horse, Race, Odds

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• Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Debt, Facts, Mystery

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• Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Believe, Issues

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, People, Leaving

  "Forever the rebel with a cause, Gonzalez exits left at City Hall / Idealist energized young liberals in strong run for mayor" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2005.

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• I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, San Francisco

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Talking, Guy, Down And

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

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• I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Thinking, Doctors, Feelings

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• I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.

  Petra Stunt

  Girl, Jobs, Hard Work

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• I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

  Alan Furst

  Brain, Want, Sticks

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• I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Mean, Tickets, Impossible

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

  America Ferrera

  Running, Thinking, Prepared

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• She is an office girl, her name is Betty. Her favorite group is Helen Reddy.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Names, Musical

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• If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

  Plato

  Law, Giving, Political

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• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Mean, Mad

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• A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sex, Selfish, Mean

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• Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

  James Chanos

  Simple, Dubai, People

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

  James Chanos

  Cash Flow, Doe, Debt

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• Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

  Michael Connelly

  Memories, Writing, Research

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• A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.

  John Frankenheimer

  Cities, People, Directors

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• When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

  Luis Fortuno

  Littles, Down The Road, Right Thing

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