"My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books."

-- Hilda Solis

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“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.”

Source : "Across the Busy Years: Recollections and Reflections". Book by Nicholas Murray Butler, Volume 1, 1939.
“In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.”
“Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.”
“These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.”
“I loved him [Ke Huy Quan as Short-Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom] - everyone loved him when I saw the film. Now I'm a grown-up and I watch it I'm not so sure - he's so loud. He yells for the entire film.”
“I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.”
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”

Source : Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”
“Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.”

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