Kenneth Frazier Quotes
Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
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History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
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I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.
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You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.
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Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.
