There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultu...
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.
I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.
