There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
Wherever you find ‘men together’ – writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men’s clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats – women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.
I haven’t got a Cadillac. I’ve got a subway token.
Usually when you’re Asian and you’re on set, you’re the only Asian there. Either you’re the token Asian or you’re the Asian sidekick.
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.
The token itself is not your new business model. What the token enables for you and for your users is the key part to focus on.
I sat down with CBS, and we talked about me developing a show for them. At the time, I was meeting with a lot of networks. And I told them, ‘I don’t want to be acting on your show as the token black guy. I want to do something that will change a network and will change the way people view African-Americans on TV.’
As with early internet startups, some token models don’t make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn’t be surprised when some fail.
When someone says ‘comic book movies’, what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.
You can stay too long in a job, that’s for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there’s too short a time to do it, and there’s too long a time to do it.
I can’t control the criticism. It’s something you certainly don’t appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
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