Kenneth Frazier Quotes
My job is to make sure that 10 and 15 years from now, people aren't going to say, 'Oh, do you remember Merck?'
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.
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I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.
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I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.
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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
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Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
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My job is to make sure that 10 and 15 years from now, people aren't going to say, 'Oh, do you remember Merck?'
