Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I can paint in jail.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
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It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.
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I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.
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What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.
