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  • Arthur Rock Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini Life is a train, get on board.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Corker My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Blair Underwood Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Robert J. Mckain Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Brandon Cruz Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Marcel Duchamp The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Benedict Arnold The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
    Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • Ann Coulter The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • A. P. Herbert This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Stephen Bayley Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Carol Bartz When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • C. S. Forester With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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