Patrick Pichette Quotes

Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

Patrick Pichette

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Space

• I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • World
  • Myself
  • Best

• Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Women
  • Write
  • Weak

• I feel it's OK if not everybody agrees with me or likes me. The weird thing was it turned into people thinking I said we deserved it. I didn't say that - but Americans do need to look at their behavior in the world. It's easy to say, 'That was awful,' and hard to ask, 'Is there a way I can amend?'

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• 'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Art
  • Father
  • Rest

• Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Candy

• We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • America

• And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

  

  Beverly D'Angelo
  • Growth

• Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • Life
  • Time
  • Small

• When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Cancer

• I wanted to have some disdain in the way that she fights sometimes, because I think Elektra is a bit careless, like, 'You're in my way - get out.'

  

  Elodie Yung
  • She

• There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Childhood
  • Leaving

• I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved; I will make mistakes, I will face heartache, but I will not be moved.

  

  Natalie Grant
  • Moved
  • Heartache
  • Fall Down

• A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Different
  • Gay

• Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

  

  Patrick Pichette
  • People
  • Google
  • Strategic