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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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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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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
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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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Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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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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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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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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Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
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If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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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 have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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I will never forget how sad it was watching this lil guy walk down the aisle at his dads funeral. He’s not so little any more.
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Only death can seperate me from the wrestling world.
