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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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
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Kisses kept are wasted; love is to be tasted.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
