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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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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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!
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I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
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I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
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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.
