Kenneth Frazier Quotes
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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When you walk off the stage, I think the end point is that you enjoyed yourself. I get to say that almost every time - either I made a few new fans or something resonated.
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'Sounds to me as if you want journalists,' Timberlane said.'No, sir, we require steady men with integrity. This is not a scoop, it’s a way of life.'
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.
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One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.
