George W. Merck Quotes
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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We just here to do our job.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
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I enjoy money.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
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Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.
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Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
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I'm not that knowledgeable with the guitar - I just find ways that are pretty creative, but it's all within the framework and the limitations of what I can do.
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We're getting murdered out there right now, especially in the last six months. Just in the Permian Basin, about two rigs a week are hit.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.
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This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.
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Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.
