Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
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Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
