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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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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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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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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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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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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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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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.
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Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don’t matter and about people that don’t matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you’re going to die.
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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?'
