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.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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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.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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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.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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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.
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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.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
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No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
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I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.
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You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.
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If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.
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I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.
