Thomas Watson, Jr. Quotes

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1914 - December 31, 1993

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Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.

Jens Lekman

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Had my parents not had visas, had my parents not had the resources to hire lawyers, I would be a DREAM Act kid, too.

Ana Navarro

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A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Spike Milligan

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I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Stieg Larsson

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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

Martin Scorsese

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Too many people who come in as CEO of a poorly performing company assume that none of the incumbent executives are worth retaining. That's not always the case. Sometimes the talent is there, but it's not being led well.

Mindy Grossman

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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is imperative that the United States lead in preventing Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. That requires vigorously enforcing the Iran deal while leaving all options on the table, including military force if necessary.

Brad Schneider

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I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'

Aunjanue Ellis

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I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

Alison Brie

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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Peter Ustinov

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I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Shawn Amos

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