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'm just human, and I have great relationships with the people that work for me.
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Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
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Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.
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Only death can seperate me from the wrestling world.
