Kenneth Langone Quotes
I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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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.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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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.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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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.'
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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.
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I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.
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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.
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I always say the next one is my favorite.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
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This is not an insult. This is a statement of the harsh reality of the economic data that people should look at.
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Every town has an Elm Street.
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What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.
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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
