Parker Harris Quotes
All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
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So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
