Mark V. Hurd Quotes
You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right - lined up from R&D out to the field.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
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Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
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There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.
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You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right - lined up from R&D out to the field.
