Kenneth Frazier Quotes
I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.
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People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.
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I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.
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I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.
