Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Hip Hop
  • Vehicle

• Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Mom

• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Believe
  • House
  • Church

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Change
  • Technological

• Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dance

• Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Them

• I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Best
  • Requires

• I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Camera
  • Seeing

• Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • College
  • Forever
  • Numbers

• If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Death
  • President

• The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Failure
  • Folly
  • Pigs

• I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • World
  • She
  • Remember

• I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Country
  • Done
  • Journalism

• I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Country

• People are getting to this place of understanding that their lifestyle choices actually do matter a whole lot as opposed to this notion that you live your life, come what may, and hope for a pill.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Writing
  • Library

• A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Future
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

  

  Ivan Glasenberg
  • Hope
  • Wrong
  • Merger