Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.
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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.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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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.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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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.
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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.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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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.
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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.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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The government invented the Internet.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.
