Miles D. White Quotes
People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.
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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.
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I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.
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I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
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What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away.
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I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
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Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.
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People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.
