Alexander Nderitu Quotes
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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I always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'
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Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.
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I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
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I just started running as part of a nutrition program, to just get a little cardio in, but I was not a runner per se before that. I started about March 1 of 2010.
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Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.
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I think 'Interscope' always puts the artist first, and they're focusing on these artists' development. I felt like that was a part of my career that I kind of needed to focus on after having come from the radio and getting exposure that way. I wanted to grow my brand and grow my fanbase, and they have proven to be the best fit for that.
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If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing.
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What feeds me destroys me.
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I feel like sarcasm is important in a relationship.
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I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
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I've always tried to seek out environments with excitement.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
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I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I understand it, but had retained the film rights.
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I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying to you, ‘I’m going to drive my car off a cliff. Should I or should I not wear a seatbelt?’ And you say, ‘I don’t think you should drive your car off the cliff.’ And they say, ‘No, no, that bit’s already been decided—the question is whether to wear a seatbelt.’ And you say, ‘Well, you might as well wear a seatbelt.’ And then they say, ‘We’ve consulted with policy expert Rory Stewart and he says . . . .’
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I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
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Only death can seperate me from the wrestling world.
