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Megan Smith Technologist
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"Google is a place filled with open-minded, innovative people from all over the world. It's a fun place to work, and it's a place where different kinds of skills come together. As we grew from a startup, I remember our founders saying that people don't want us to change our culture, but we need to keep making it better. It's an attitude: "We are the ones we've been waiting for." Silicon Valley in general, tech in general, means using technology to solve big problems in the world."

Mean Fun Attitude
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Megan Smith Technologist
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"Tech companies like to set stretch goals, like we'll try to be the best company for women and minorities, and we have to ask, "What does that really mean?" By setting a goal like that, it makes all of us pay attention to that idea and try to innovate around it, to understand the underpinnings. One piece is being transparent, saying "Hey, we have an issue, we're open to innovation on it." It's important for innovation to prove that more diversity makes better products."

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Matthew Lewis Actor, Author
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"The reason I feel bad for Steve Kloves is because he doesn't enjoy cutting things out. He's not sitting there with scissors, just laughing maniacally, going, "Ahahaha." He doesn't like doing it. The stories mean so much to him. But it had to go. And David kept saying, "We're gonna try, we're gonna try, we're gonna try" all the way into the shoot until the very last days, when he said, "Sorry, it's just not gonna work.""

Mean Cutting Sorry
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Matthew Lewis Actor, Author
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"I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them."

Mean Parent Dvds
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Matthew Lewis Actor, Author
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"In fact, my favorite Beatles song is "In My Life." And from that, you can gauge that my friends mean so much to me. I love John Lennon, so it's kind of like moody... There's a lot you can gauge from that. As insignificant as it seems, as an actor, it's an interesting way to approach a character."

Mean Character Song
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Kirsten Miller Author, Educator
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"You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes."

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Kirsten Miller Author, Educator
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"The problems come when it's time to put our faith in things other than the Lord. There's no doubt that other people can be tricky. But once again, it's all about listening to your heart. That don't mean you should ignore what your head's telling you. But your heart will do a much better job of helping you figure out who's good and who ain't. Who deserves your faith, and who doesn't. If you judge solely by evidence, you could wind up making some big mistakes."

Mean Jobs Mistake
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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
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"I'm not jumping through the gym by any means. But I don't need to be able to do that in order to be a great player."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar."

Mean Country Rights
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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar."

Mean Country Rights
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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance."

Mean Jobs Influence
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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses."

Mean Passion Marriage
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Hope Davis Actress
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"To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there."

Mean Want Play
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Horace Mann Educator
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"Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach."

Mean Country Ignorance
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Horace Mann Educator
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"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."

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Liz Prince Comic Book Artist
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"I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes" are what we should be aspiring to, but the Internet means something different to me because I've always been primarily interested in publishing physical books."

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"Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before."

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