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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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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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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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.
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'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.
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Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.
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America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.
