"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."

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Jeanette Winterson

#Believe Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Boys Quotes

“. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .”
“No! I don't feel any pressure right now!”
“A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.”

Source : Song: If I Had Eyes, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008
“I am Cyrus, king of the world...”

Source : Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..
“We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.”
“[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!”
“Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.”
“I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They suggest themselves to me constantly, but I have little patience, I am lazy. Now and then, however, when I'm in the right mood, I stop to listen to one and sit down to record it. I think that by now they know I am not patient, so they make themselves short.”

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