Jim Allchin Quotes
We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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For me, the NFL is the thing that's always been, kind of somewhat like the Heisman, it's been a dream as a kid to be able to have an opportunity to even be talked about being able to play in the NFL.
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I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?
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This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.
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We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.
