Mark V. Hurd Quotes

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

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• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Moving
  • Like

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Actor

• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • California
  • San Francisco

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Light
  • Evil

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Culture
  • Kitchen
  • Tough

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • She
  • House
  • Kind

• I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Books
  • Romance

• If one is not a human being, what is one?

  

  Achille Mbembe
  • Human
  • Being

• The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don't know to call the DJ 'the ambassadors' or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
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  • Career
  • Team