Kenneth Langone Quotes

I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.

Kenneth Langone

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• A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Marriage

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poet
  • Politician
  • Cultures

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Party

• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Love
  • Law

• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Think
  • Car

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Political
  • Abuse
  • Medical

• I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

  

  Raekwon
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Learn

• We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Want
  • Leave
  • U.S.

• I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Questions
  • Dignity

• I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Think
  • Man
  • Woman

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Judged
  • Rather

• Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Empty

• If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Advice
  • Right
  • Sincere

• Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Successful

• I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Power

• I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Great
  • Songs
  • Radio

• Statistics are the heart of democracy.

  

  Simeon Strunsky
  • Heart
  • Democracy
  • Statistics

• I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor.

  

  David R. Brower
  • True
  • Energy

• The scripts of 'The Wire' are fantastic - the scripts of 'Breaking Bad,' the scripts of 'Mad Men,' the scripts of 'The Sopranos,' the scripts of 'Battlestar Galactica.' You could keep going on. They're incredibly well written.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Mad

• I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.

  

  Kenneth Langone