Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I am a Zionist.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
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Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'
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Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.
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Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.
