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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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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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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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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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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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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A month before I booked 'This Is Us,' I was like, 'Maybe I should move to Montreal and work in a coffee shop.'
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I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
