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I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person.

Am Bowl Chili Drive
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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

About Any Day Eat
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34.

Anyone Bikini Entire Go
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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Anger Been Brain Children
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One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

About Anger Because Better
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But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let’s get our priorities straight. I think we all know what’s really important in life? winning an Oscar.

I think Scheme Important
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The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
Back Best Children Divorce
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You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

You know Excuse Dress
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Accept who you are unless you’re a serial killer.

Accept Who you Serial killer
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Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
Life Short Butterfly Average
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People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.

People Funny Child Accountant
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

Stuffed deer Wearing Dark glasses
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I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

I think Have Barbie Buzz cut
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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Kindness Compassion Laughter Joy
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It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that’s what I know for sure… I think.

Challenges Obstacles Layers Fun
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Procrastination isn’t the problem, it’s the solution. So procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

Procrastination Problem Solution
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I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

Feel Hangover Happy memories
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If someone says you’re weird, say Thank You.

Someone Weird Thank you
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Go to bed in your fireplace, you’ll sleep like a log

Go Bed Fireplace Sleep
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Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

Do things Happy Confines Legal system
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You are never too old to play. You are only too old for low-rise jeans.

Never Too old Play
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Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
Never follow Path Means
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e aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble
Space aliens Best creation Offer Pray
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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

Most comedy Laugh Expense Hurting
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I don’t understand the sizes anymore. There’s a size zero, which I didn’t even know that they had. It must stand for: “Ohhh my God, you’re thin

Understand Sizes Zero God
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Normal Dressed Buy Work
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I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.

Godmother Great thing God
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Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

Laugh As much Cry Keep doing
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Designing is my hobby. If I didn’t do what I do for a living – at some point when I don’t do this for a living – I’ll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Designing Hobby Living
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Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Find out Person truth Soul
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Ability Action Advantage Competitive
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Change Company Confusion Even
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Control Destiny Else Own
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Face Face Reality Reality Wish
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Change before you have to.

Life Before Change You
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Articulate Business Business Leaders Completion
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Afraid Because Internet Type
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

Cut Decisions Destroy Job
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Act Because Far Giving
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Been Country Only Ordained
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

Billion Billion Dollars Century China
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

Believe Competitiveness Essence Get
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Almost Behind Carrier Compensation
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Big Big Business Business Internet
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Best Capital Changed Company
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Good Learned Mistakes Often
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Course Developing Gardener Had
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Before Change Lead Manage
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The team with the best players wins.

Best Players Team Wins
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