Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
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The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.
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Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.
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Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
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Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
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I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.
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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
