Kenneth Langone Quotes

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Kenneth Langone

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• When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Work Hard

• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • English
  • Literature

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Party
  • Better
  • Communist

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Lost

• I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Bored
  • England
  • Only

• I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'

  

  Ice Cube
  • Done
  • Man
  • Black

• I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • Love
  • Me

• I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Long
  • Family
  • Bad

• I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Dance
  • Politics

• I always say the next one is my favorite.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Always
  • Say
  • Favorite

• The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • War
  • Political

• Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Good
  • Future

• Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Door
  • Realize

• And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Career
  • Relationship

• Think'st thou there are no serpents in the worldBut those who slide along the grassy sod,And sting the luckless foot that presses them?There are who in the path of social lifeDo bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,And sting the soul.

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Soul
  • Path
  • Sun

• Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who has the experience, respect and seniority to accomplish that. I am that senator.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Up
  • Great
  • Experience

• I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

  

  Paul Broun
  • Opinion

• I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

  

  Kenneth Langone