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

• 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

• 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

• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intelligent

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Step

• People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Shows
  • Forgotten

• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Death
  • Lawyer
  • Wedding

• I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • World
  • Mother
  • Peace

• I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away!

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • People
  • Dad
  • Driving

• If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I love being super-tough, but if I need to put on a dress and do my hair and makeup, I can do that, too.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• 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