Marvin Bower Quotes
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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While incarcerated, I had no bank statements, no bills, no credit history. In our interconnected world of big data, I appeared to be no different than a deceased person.
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Creativity allows people to be effective.
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When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.
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There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
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I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.
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People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
