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We tax our companies more than any other country in the world, so we really are not really encouraging businesses to grow and expand, and over time, that's going to make it so that we diminish our role in the global economy.

~Adena Friedman

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I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria's Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident - that made me feel very comfortable.

~Adriana Lima

Topics: Advice Banks Comfortable Commercial Confident Encouraging Feel First Giving Just Made Me Nervous Relax Remember Secret She Shoot Very Victoria Victoria's Secret I Remember

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I think there are many things that we can do today to make it a better work environment that is more supportive and encouraging of diversity.

~Aileen Lee

Topics: Better Diversity Encouraging Environment Make Many More Supportive Things Think Today Work Work Environment I Think

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'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. 'The New Yorker' sent me nice notes, though - penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren't terribly encouraging.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Canada Early Encouraging First Informal Long Long Time Magazines Me Messages Never New New Yorker Nice Notes Only Published Royal Sending Sent Signed Stopped Stories Story Terribly Them Then Though Time Were Yorker 1950S

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Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

~Allen Boyd

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I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us - or my mom - and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.

~Andrew Luck

Topics: Always Appreciated Being Coming Dad Encouraging Fun Game Just Mom Outside Part Playing Us Very Were

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I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

~Andrew Solomon

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Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.

~Anna Getty

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I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.

~Anne Stevenson

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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Although Blunders Broken Die Dies Encouraging Form Him His Life Man May Men Never Part Say Surely Things Which Yes You

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