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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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.
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If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.
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There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.
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The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.
