Harold S. Geneen Quotes
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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I like risky stuff.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
