Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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I'm eager to find the perfect film to shoot during my hiatus from 'Suits'.
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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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I'm evangelical.
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I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.
