Vernon Jordan Quotes

#1. I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

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#2. A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

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#3. And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

George R R Martin

#4. I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

Nina Bawden

#5. I said, "Mr. President, if there are policies of yours with which I disagree, they will be addressed. From time to time you may not like what I say, or how or where I say it. I hope we can work through our differences when those occasions arise." Nixon

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#6. What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

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#7. The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

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#8. Terrorism is not new to black people.

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#9. My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

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#10. What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

Laura Ziskin

#11. Martin's interest in the movie returned. Rydar pumped, Jax squirmed happily, and Martin added another dollop of Vaseline to his palm.

Marshall Thornton

#12. September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

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#13. You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

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#14. Now that he was dead, Paul could look at him. The cop looked like a big doll that has been badly treated by a gang of nasty children.

Stephen King

#15. But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

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#16. I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

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#17. Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

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#18. You're in love, that's what your problem is.

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