Kenneth Langone Quotes
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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I know what poverty is.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
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Pixar has the integrity to not rush.
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I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
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When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.
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Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.
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Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
