#plain

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#boards #companies #constituents #data #defend

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#children #fun #just #plain #work

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#complain #even #i #life #like

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#explain #outset #riddles #scientist #should

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#against #along #back #creeping #far

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#biggest thing #ego #explain #family #guess

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing' ↗

— Ross Perot

#plain #right #right thing #talk #texas

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. ↗

— Katy Perry

#explaining #guitar #how #i #point

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#care #comprehensive #coverage #easier #equal

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different