John Gutfreund Quotes
Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016
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Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.
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The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
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This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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I take the NASA physical every year.
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Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.
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Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.
