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Quotes by Executive
"We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team."
"I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for."
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change."
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"No where to go, and all day to get there."
"God's creatures, great and small... eat them one, eat them all."
"What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news."
News,
"The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."
"The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding."
1
"While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended."
"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."
"The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?"
"The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be."
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
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"We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful."
"Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him."
"I don't know how a fellow looks, when he meets somebody that he hasn't seen, hasn't heard of, don't know where they are, know nothing about the house, whatever."
"We used to hold those secret meetings at her house."
"We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was in St. Louis and he said things was going so well and that it was such a wonderful place."
"I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't."
"One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well."
"No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance."
"If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance."
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"I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another."
"We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation."
"I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere."
"Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience."
"The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience."
"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
Want,
"People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong."
"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."
"There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things."
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"We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them."
"The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination."
"It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before."
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