"In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness."
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"Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team."
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"My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow."
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"There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written."
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"A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel."
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"I like the responsive, quick feeling I get out of the Proton, and I am excited to have this board as my model."
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"Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here."
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"If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards."
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"I try not to be mean for the sake of being mean, and if I do do a joke or a tweet or something that is at someone's expense - and those are my fine lines; obviously they're there - I want it to be something that's pretty much across the board we all as a society agree this is bad."
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"A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity."
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"I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power."
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"You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future."
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"In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify."
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"The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable."
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"I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk."
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"Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point."
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"Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent."
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"We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back."
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"The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist."
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"I had a conversation with Nick Barrucci, and he said he thought I'd be a good fit for this project. It was just that simple! Once I learned what Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, and Jack Herbert were doing for Kirby: Genesis, though, I was even more on board."
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