Kenneth Chenault Quotes
At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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To write is a humiliation.
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Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.
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The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
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Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
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Look after yourself, get rest, get a facial, get a hair treatment, eat really well, work out, get a personal trainer. And that's really the key: to take care of yourself and not burn out.
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At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.
