Sentences with phrase «say in a lot of things»

Fast - forward three years and Massenet is back and in a role where she has plenty of say in a lot of things: as a venture capitalist.

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«A lot of crypto engineers know Zooko as someone who only backs things he really believes in,» Mylund Nielsen says.

«My mom said chances are you will be to [sic] busy with more important things but there is a lot of people coming on these buses and even just a meeting from you or your wife would really lift peoples spirits,» The Washington Post reports her writing in her letter.

«There's lots of language in the shareholder letter about things taking time, and that's been something of a theme since Dorsey took over a year ago,» said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

«One thing we do know is that over the course of the years we have had some macroprudential changes to how this system works and we are comfortable those changes have done a lot to make sure the most fragile or the most vulnerable of those in that borrowing space are in effect being protected or have been prevented from excessive borrowing,» he said.

We get a lot of things wrong in the scientific community,» Scaramucci said.

People share a lot of information, and if you take the time to listen to what they are saying, you will be in the best possible position to have meaningful conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that moment.

«While things seem to be improving, the ability to find addresses in Saudi Arabia — and a lot of basic stuff in the last mile of execution... is going to be a big question they're always wrestling and thinking about,» he says.

«The point is, there's a lot of other things that are in the offing here that we don't even know about,» he said.

«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in the country.

«On paper, things look good — our spoilage is in check, and I don't have a lot of back stock,» he said.

«Credit to the team at Amazon for creating a lot of excitement in this space,» Pichai said, while claiming that Google Home will be considerably superior in its «far - field voice recognition» (ability to decipher speech against background noise at different distances), its integrations with other smart - home systems like Google - owned Nest, and its aptitude to understand and manage things like restaurant reservations, travel itineraries, and contact lists.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

Without evaluating each skill against a standard, Turner says,» you might find yourself being pressured in your mind to pick the best of a bad lot instead of running the whole thing over again.»

«The shooting changed the way I think about a lot of things in life,» Cook says.

But anyway, so we talked a lot about whales and we said, «When you go whale watching and a whale breaches, a whale jumps up above the water, everybody oohs and aahs and takes pictures of it and talks about «Oh, look at the whale,» and then the whale goes back under water for like 45 minutes, and it's the most boring thing in the world.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

«A lot of companies that are successful in the long term try to do things a little differently [and] get a lot of criticism,» Pearson said in an interview in August.

«The ability to get a lot of people in a room and enjoy a single thing is something I love seeing happen,» Ramos says.

«This is a wake - up call to Silicon Valley and the tech community that if you let these things get out of hand, having grown up in a very lightly regulated environment, you could end up with a lot more regulation than you seek, he said after the hearing.

«Although there are lots of things in life that we can't control, there is one thing we have total control over: ourselves,» he said.

«I accept that a lot of the things I'm fighting for now,» Whande said, «I might not see in my lifetime... Martin Luther King didn't get to see his dream fulfilled, but it was fulfilled.»

«I loved to get them a lot of things to put under the tree at Christmas, because it was just so much darn fun to watch them when they were little, opening the gifts and enjoying them,» said Davis, who lives in Mesa, Ariz..

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

Seriously, that is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my entire career, and that's saying a lot because I've been around a long time.

«All these different variables, they had a lot of things in common,» Negron said.

«A lot of the things we do in the sprint are meant to help people who are introverted — people who aren't as comfortable or as capable of pitching their ideas — to be on a level playing field with the founder or with anyone on the team,» says Knapp.

«Things were so good for so long at home, a lot of (the banks) didn't prepare for the growth problem in advance,» says Brad Smith, an analyst at Stonecap Securities.

«People find a lot of joy in rediscovering a music playlist from months ago or an old joke with a neighbor, even though those things did not seem particularly meaningful in the moment,» Columbia's Ting Zhang said of her research on the subject (done while she was at Harvard).

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

«A newspaper is a lot cheaper than breakfast,» said Brian Kelly, noting the soft side of this marketing plan: to get customers to say nice things about them, especially in the age of Twitter.

«I think in the country, people said at where we are right now, we need to have some of these things in place, but now with a dynamic and robust economy and what we see happening right now with the tax cuts and job bill, it makes a lot of things more possible,» Kelly said.

«Back then, I think a lot of people were kind of wandering around in the desert trying to figure out what to do with these things,» Park says.

«She's very good at a lot of things,» says Ohanian in a recent interview on CNBC's «Squawk Box,» «and well on her way to being an awesome mom too.»

«A lot of guys are in suits five days a week or more, so things like socks, laces, bracelets, that's where you can express some individuality,» says Barclay, articulating the reason why designer watches are still selling well when everyone is attached to their time - telling smartphone.

«It was very clear that Palantir had a remarkable mission and focus and was really bold in its approach toward innovation, and toward a lot of things that are fundamentally broken,» he says.

«Turns out in 2014, a lot of our sellers were selling things like candles and incense and whatnot — and no one was using bitcoin to buy candles and incense back then,» he said.

«I think one of the really interesting things that people are going to see today — and I think it's something that should be celebrated — is that the president has brought a lot of people into this administration, and this White House in particular, who have been very blessed and very successful,» said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary.

Jim: Alright, well this is exciting, because a lot of people say, you know what, why can only rich people invest in things that could make them richer?

«That is a theme that you will see in looking at this budget, that there's a lot of stalling, a lot of things are being shovelled forward,» Mulcair said.

«Our business is dynamic and changing quickly, and so, things like Ripple and partnerships with wallets around the world... are going to be critical to our success,» Holmes said, adding that «you'll see a lot of interesting announcements from us in the coming months.»

When asked about the entrepreneurial journey, Richard Hoad, co-owner of the Parsonage Inn in East Orleans, Massachusetts, says, «There's a lot of things you have to think about, but just say «yes, I'm going to do it.

But in the document, Hsieh said a lot more about a lot of things, and even quotes Apple's Steve Jobs about taking the long view of such an entrepreneurial effort.

With all due respect to Fred Wilson, another true believer — and, to be clear, an enormous amount of respect is due — it says a lot that, in the midst of this massive boom, he's citing «Rare Pepe Cards,» of all things, as a prime example of an interesting modern blockchain app.

There are a lot of things taking place in Chicago that I would like to help change,» said Rachel Bernier - Green, owner of «Laine's Bake Shop.

«We are seeing a lot of banks using the buzzword «blockchain» and saying things like they are interested in the blockchain but not necessarily in Bitcoin,» says Swanepoel.

«A lot of words have been used but I think the main thing is, buyers should be aware it is much closer to gambling than investing,» Poloz said in an interview with CNBC.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.