Staff Quotes - Page 16

• AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

  Ron Fournier

  Careers, White, House

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• Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Salary, Charity

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• I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Country, Sainthood, World

  Gerald R. Ford's speech to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as quoted in "The New York Times", May 4, 1974.

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• Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

  Jan Egeland

  Office, Three, Adequate

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• Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

  Jan Egeland

  Agency, Years, Recognition

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Guy, Comedian, Trying

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• What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.

  Evan Davis

  Jobs, Thinking, Self

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• I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, White, Judging

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• You know what really keeps your staff on their toes? A harpoon gun.

  Daniel Tosh

  Gun, Toes, Knows

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• [The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

  David Lloyd George

  Government, Three, Fool

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• I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but
  it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  East, World, West

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• I will never forget my time with Athletic Club and I'd like to thank the fans and staff for all their support and, above all, wish all my fantastic former team-mates all the best for the future.

  Ander Herrera

  Team, Support, Athletic

  "Luke Shaw passes medical at Manchester United for £30m move" by The Press Association, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Looks

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• I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Groups, Use, Want

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm blessed to be supported by some brilliant staff, who are all experts in their field and dedicated to what they do.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Blessed, Experts, Fields

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I love cooking and kitchens.It's just a great world, and I wanted to explore it. You see the façade, the outside, the public part, and then you just walk through one door marked "Staff Only" and you're in a different universe.

  Steven Knight

  Different Universes, Doors, Cooking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Good Friend, Groups

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.

  Robert E. Murray

  Birthday, Teacher, Party

  "Why Bake Sales & Birthday Treats Are The Final Frontier In School Nutrition". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2015.

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• A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.

  Steve Irwin

  Jobs, Nice, Animal

  Source: www.reptilesmagazine.com

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• Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.

  John Starks

  Player, Coaching, Pits

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

  Tom Ford

  Tantrums, Awful, Direct

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• If you don't have an emotionally healthy staff you won't move forward as an organization.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Moving

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• It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't seen me for the last year. I'm really blessed with a lot of great partners, including my writing staff. Being able to rely on the people around me has really helped out.

  Veena Sud

  Blessed, Writing, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Selfish, Princess, Want

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• If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Fire, Doors, Answers

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