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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• 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.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• 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.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Ignore

• 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.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Trying
  • Best
  • Elephant

• 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.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Own
  • Limits

• 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.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• Life is such a tragicomedy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • History
  • Name
  • Evidence

• I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Shoes

• I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Road

• It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Up
  • Real
  • Business

• I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

  

  Lea Thompson

• I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Good
  • Exercise

• My job is to make sure that 10 and 15 years from now, people aren't going to say, 'Oh, do you remember Merck?'

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • People
  • Job
  • Remember