Azim Premji Quotes
What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
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We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
Maddie Ziegler
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
Ed Bradley
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
Samuel Larsen
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Fay Wray
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Felix Dennis
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
Abraham Verghese
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
Patrick Roy
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
Gary Johnson
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
Larry the Cable Guy
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. Wilson
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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. Morgan
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
Sam Phillips
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
Lana Del Rey
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
T.I.
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Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.
Max Heindel
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
Dakota Johnson
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I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.
Jaime King
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What I do is create an aura of mystery.
George Noory
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What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
Azim Premji