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'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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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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There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
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You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.
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Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.
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I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
