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On those sugar plantations, and on those tobacco fields, and on those rice plantations, and on those cotton fields were opera singers, jazz musicians, playwrights, novelists, surgeons, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists.
But the paradox is, when a lot of these people slip into the policy-making mode, that social awareness vanishes and they start talking like accountants.
Or we want to give the training to accountants during tax season.
The more polite ones said, "Well, you know, Indians make good software programmers and accountants, but they can't do the creative stuff."
After all, we're doctors, not accountants.
But we have something accountants don't: access to families.
Of course, we need scientists and policymakers and organization leaders, but just as importantly, we also need accountants and managers and assistants to work in these organizations that are tackling these problems.
Accountants and lawyers are still needed.
I know ballet dancers who can't dance, accountants who can't add, medical students who never became doctors.
Narrator: Computers, once the unwieldy tools of accountants and other geeks, escaped the backrooms to enter the media fracas.
If you know about this trait, you can understand a lot of puzzles about human behavior, like why artists are so different from accountants.
I heard from so many women: police officers, members of our military, financial assistants, actors, engineers, lawyers, bankers, accountants, teachers ... journalists.
And so to try to understand what is it and what does it do, my Lab of Misfits had just the wonderful opportunity and the pleasure to work with who are some of the greatest creators of awe that we know: the writers, the creators, the directors, the accountants, the people who are Cirque Du Soleil.
Because of that store owner, all of my mother's siblings went on to become engineers, lawyers, accountants and teachers, and my mother went on to become a lawyer.
Paddy Ashdown, who was the grand high nabob of Bosnia to the United Nations, in his book about his experience, he said, "I realize what I needed was accountants without borders, to follow that money."
One of my senior colleagues told me, when I was a youngster in this profession, rather proudly, that statisticians were people who liked figures but didn't have the personality skills to become accountants.
The system is highly run by accountants; there's not enough, or any, food-knowledgeable people in the business.
But as an entrepreneur, you don't do accounting, you hire accountants.
The original, Mon Pere ce heros, was one of the most charming films of 1991 so naturally the accountants in Hollywood thought they could hire Depardieu and phone the rest in.
Certainly whoever produced this misaligned heap of bouncing blobs set to jarring and annoying music was hired by ghouls in suits or possibly accountants to do a dirty job, and no love went into it whatsoever.
Here we see flinty eyed accountants and oh-so-serious market researchers uncontaminated by artistry using film as a corporate tool,in the process producing a movie that while technically excellent has neither soul nor spirit.
They easily could've been accountants or insurance salesmen.
MBYGALD shows that even bands who've got personalities as colourful and diverse as a bunch of accountants and librarians going on a fishing trip can be offered to make a movie in which this absolutely amazing collective charisma is supposed to set the screen on fire.
This looked like it was written by a committee of accountants.
(Nothing personal against accountants, I am one.
We have seen Enron-style fraud from corporate management, Arthur Anderson-style smoke and mirrors from accountants, and now Putnam Funds-style market-timing irregularities from mutual funds.
For a country to export the services of lawyers, doctors, engineers, insurers, accountants, and teachers, other countries must recognize and trust its professional qualifications and broader regulatory regime.
If we cannot rely on the best auditors, can we continue to trust chartered accountants?
Accountants, architects, attorneys, and engineers all then jump on the bandwagon, using restrictive licensing requirements to limit supply, competition, and foreign entry.
Brexit advocates appealed almost exclusively to nationalist myth, whereas the “Remain” side often sounded like accountants.
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