Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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• I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • Good
  • Habits

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Desire
  • Church
  • Better

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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  • Type
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• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Time
  • Me
  • Beach

• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Relationship

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Today
  • Year
  • Memory

• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Reassuring

• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Good
  • Women
  • Moment

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
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• I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Positive
  • New
  • Year

• Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
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• I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Fan
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  • Russia

• But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.

  

  John Otto Limp Bizkit

• If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.

  

  Balfour Stewart
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• My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Children
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  • Parents