Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
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Villains are fun to play.
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In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
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When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'
