Kenneth Langone Quotes
I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: -When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; -When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
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Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we´re dealt. We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip ém, don´t expect no help!
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In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge
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The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.
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Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!
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What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
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It's not that I'm a daredevil. But I'm just generally not a fearful person. I don't conduct my life worrying about what could happen, what may happen.
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A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.
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I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.
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I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
