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 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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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.
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It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.
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The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was.
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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
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You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.
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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.
