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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I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
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The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
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Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
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Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.
