Kenneth Langone Quotes

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

Kenneth Langone

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Quotes to Explore

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

Rachel Cusk
- Up
- Job
- Writer
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Samuel Gompers
- Long
- Achieve
- Determined
The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

Zach Galifianakis
- Time
- Long
- Day
A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

Frances McDormand
- Time
- Good
- Great
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

Malcolm Gladwell
- Important
- Long
- Done
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

Madeleine M. Kunin
- People
- World
- Thinking