Sentences with word «famously»

Yahoo! CEO and former Google executive Marissa Mayer is a famously insane workaholic who says she averages 90 - hour weeks packed with 60 meetings.

Now, enthusiasts line up to hoard rarities like the annual spring release of Halifax's Garrison Spruce Beer; esoteric and earthy Italian imports like Panil; and, most famously, Westvleteren XII, a Belgian ale brewed by Trappist monks that sold out in minutes when it hit 16 Ontario liquor stores at a cost of $ 80 per six - pack last December.

Facebook famously started at Harvard, Google started at Stanford, and Snapchat was founded by Stanford frat guys.

Patricia Walker's suit tested Neiman's famously generous return policy and inspired a 12 - page feature last year in the Morning News» luxury magazine.

A couple of years ago, Benioff famously went to bat against several state laws that would allow business to refuse service to people based on sexual orientation under the umbrella of religious freedom.

Alberta famously drew job searchers from across Canada for years, before the latest downturn in the oilpatch made the other provinces competitive again.

For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns in her first class on structure.

This famously includes the «ramen noodle, PB&J» diet: low in nutrition, but also low in cost.

Even a famously well - compensated Fortune 500 executive like Bartz admits to long having undervalued herself in salary negotiations, and she sees women who work for her apologizing when they come to her for a raise.

On Feb. 18, the folks who make Maker's Mark publicly rescinded their decision to dilute the famously 90 - proof bourbon by 3 % to meet demand.

This, along with certain other parts of the law, eventually got heaped under the «death panels» slur that former half - term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin famously used to criticize the Affordable Care Act (and which was subsequently named PolitiFact's Lie of the Year in 2009).

Sessions famously — or infamously, depending on your point of view — said that «good people don't smoke marijuana» during a hearing on the impact of state marijuana legalization laws.

Warren Buffett once famously said: «It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.»

The late Mary Tyler Moore famously said, «You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.»

Still, Pynt hopes there will be a more focused effort to continue the push for a local food movement while preserving the heritage of Singapore's famously multicultural cuisine.

Famously conservative, the brothers also maintain immense political influence and routinely spend, along with their vast donor network, hundreds of millions on political campaigns and causes.

Despite the famously troublesome build quality of British Leyland, that model enjoyed a 26 - year run.

(He famously once used a pickup basketball game to test the mettle of his sister Michelle's then - boyfriend, Barack Obama.)

When Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he famously replied, «Because that's where the money is.»

Unfortunately from my perspective, the company is famously parochial — meaning they're iconic and much - loved where they have stores, like in California, but they basically refuse to expand elsewhere.

Montaigne famously said that no man is a hero to his valet.

Jennifer Aniston famously quipped as Rachel Green in an early episode of Friends.

During his presidential campaign, François Hollande famously proclaimed his disdain for the rich.

«Caesar famously wept at the feet of a statue of Alexander the Great,» Holiday points out.

Some stars, such as Chuck Norris or Elvis Presley, were famously in the armed forces — while others may come as more of a surprise.

In 2004, while playing for the New England Patriots, he famously tackled a streaker during the Super Bowl.

There is no reason not to follow your heart,» Steve Jobs famously said.

The result: prices plummeted for days to roughly $ 3,500 last week when JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon famously called bitcoin a «fraud» that would not end well.

Now we have a president who famously described climate change as a hoax advanced by the Chinese to undermine the US economy.

The song was first written for a 1933 film, but is perhaps most famously used in the musical «42nd Street.»

The legendary stock - picker has famously shunned smartphones, and until recently did not invest in tech companies (though that may be changing).

The company that has built and lost fortunes making paper, computer monitors and, more famously, mobile phones and networks, is buying connected - devices maker Withings for $ 192 million) to aid its push into digital health technology.

Apple famously refuses to add microSD support to the iPhone, which can make storing photos, videos, or other files tricky over time.

In the mid -»90s, Kamran Elahian, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, famously engraved his Ferrari F355's license plate with Momenta, the name of a company he founded in 1989.

George Whitfield has famously worked with Manziel, the 2012 Heisman trophy winner, as well as NFL standouts Andrew Luck, Cam Newton, and Ben Roethlisberger.

In 2012 a U.S. court found Laboutin could receive trademark protection only to the extent his famously red soles contrasted with the rest of the shoe.

More famously, Twain lost the modern - day equivalent of millions on a publishing invention called the Paige compositor, which never really worked.

To offer the lowest prices, Amazon is famously frugal.

Rock n» roll superstar Prince famously died of an opioid overdose two years ago.

When reflecting on his transcendent sculpture, The David, Renaissance master Michaelangelo famously said, «I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.»

«I do think he will get a significant reduction but I think he will still be incarcerated for the foreseeable near future,» said Hilder, whose clients included Sherron Watkins, who famously warned Lay in late August 2001 that Enron could «implode in a wave of accounting scandals.»

When reflecting on a coloring book page he just finished, Justin Bieber famously Instagrammed, «Its dope Cuz I actually sat down for 30 min and finished I never can sit still for that long so it's an accomplishment, yes this took me 30 minutes haha I know I suck Don't judge me.»

Cernan famously said as Apollo 17 arrived on the moon: «The Challenger has landed.

Canada, which famously eliminated its deficit in the mid-1990s under Finance Minister Paul Martin, is being upheld as a shining example.

He characterizes the social climate under President Trump as «hostile,» and adds that even in Seattle, a famously progressive area of the country, he now hears the occasional racial slur on the street.

Kim is reportedly a fan of Italian soccer club Inter Milan and famously invited former NBA player Dennis Rodman to Pyongyang in 2013.

The exact goals vary from person to person — in late»90s Gates once famously used his week to get his head around the emerging trend of the internet — but all commentators seem to agree that the experience is a great way to set your direction.

«We use high - performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques,» founder and CEO Jeff Bezos famously noted in a 2010 letter to shareholders.

These bold leaders abandoned their educational careers to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams — the path trod most famously before them by Bill Gates, who left Harvard to start what would become Microsoft.

The late sci - fi author Arthur C. Clarke famously said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.