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When we acquired Secureworks, if we had taken it and made all the salespeople into Dell salespeople, we would have totally destroyed Secureworks. Instead, it remained Secureworks but with capital from Dell and access to Dell's customers. And now, it's a great business. Michael Dell

Great Business Made Great Business Destroyed Would Totally Remained Had Dell Taken Instead Access Salespeople Customers Acquired Capital Now

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct. Michael Koryta

Alone Home Family Rights Comedy King First Films Harry Harry Potter Direct Directed Potter Through Columbus House Himself Intent Etc Script Acquired Working Who Chris Two

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Today Government Corruption President Way Would Through Never He Knew Well Government Officials Off Officials Done Acquired Tolerated Showing Millions

I'll remind you that the West signed a deal with North Korea, said it would make the world a safer place, and, of course, all the words evaporated, and North Korea acquired nuclear weapons. Naftali Bennett

I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint. Ngaio Marsh

Long Painting Way About Never Long Way New Felt Got Doing Lot Quite Quite A Lot New Zealand Acquired Skill Paint Zealand Technical

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering. Nick Bostrom

Technology Generation Example Engineering Our Indeed Able Some Gym Selected Lifetime Genetic Genetic Engineering For Example Built Passed Up Traits Offspring Transfer Cannot Happens Might Acquired Next Next Generation Now Muscles

On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired. Nirmala Sitharaman

Building Sets Sector Small Both Private Been Private Sector Up Submarine Surveillance Vessel Public Capacities Acquired Really Skill Coastal

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge World Only Closet Acquired

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. Prudentius

Made Hunger More Greater Gold Acquired

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. Reed Hastings

The Dabo people are consumer marketing geniuses. This is exactly why we acquired them. Richard Edelman

People Marketing Exactly Consumer Geniuses Them Acquired Why

I had a job lined up as an assistant brand manager at Playtex, at age 23, all lined up. But my father had an offer to be acquired by DDB in 1978. He said, 'I'd really like you to come into the business for a year.' Richard Edelman

You Business Age Father Job Year Had He Come Like Said Lined Up Brand Offer Manager Acquired Really Assistant

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no. Richard Eyre

You Confidence Director Experience Say Minimalist Until Acquired

While we have been presented several opportunities to be acquired by multinational corporations, we are most excited that our collaboration with Bain Capital fulfills our commitment to remain an independent family-owned and operated company with a purpose-driven business model that puts community at our core. Richelieu Dennis

Business Commitment Opportunities Community Our Collaboration Corporations Several Independent Remain Excited Puts Most Operated Been Model Family-Owned While Acquired Capital Business Model Fulfills Company Multinational Presented Core

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. Robert B. Parker

Learning Achieve Reading Whatever Think Resonance Way Say Able Tempting Part Simply Along Effect May Acquired Amount

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. Robert Toombs

Party Other Purchase Compromises Excluded Demanded New California New Mexico Mexico Forever Either Republic Them Acquired Acquisitions Should Conquest Slavery

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story. Roger Wang

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. Romano Prodi

Job Power Lose No-One Wants Acquired

To be sure, China is nowhere as powerful as the U.S., but it has acquired the ability to impose its will on individual nations around the world. From Australia to Germany, South Africa to South Korea, political leaders are careful not to rub China the wrong way. Sanjaya Baru

World Political Will South Africa Way Ability Individual Wrong Leaders Powerful Wrong Way Sure Around Korea Impose South Political Leaders Australia South Korea Germany Nations Africa China Acquired Nowhere Rub Careful

My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved. Susan Straight

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