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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Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!' His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.
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If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
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I felt like, for so many years - and I still even feel it - as a girl, you can't really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.
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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
