Kenneth Langone Quotes
The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I'm a firm believer that if you're nervous before you go into a scene, it means the scene is going to be good, and it means you're invested in making something special.
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It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant.
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Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.
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Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.
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I like to try out different methods to get to good songs.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
