Kenneth Langone Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.
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America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
