Kenneth Langone Quotes

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

Kenneth Langone

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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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Best

• I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Family
  • Appreciate

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • History
  • Scary
  • Gossip

• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Up
  • Different
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Down
  • Exploring

• I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Interested
  • Beliefs
  • Forcing

• 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.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Pleasure
  • Mankind

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• 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!

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • God
  • War
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Value

• 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!

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • People

• God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

• Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

  

  John Grisham
  • Guy
  • Couple

• I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • May
  • Remember
  • Career

• In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

  

  Joe Wilson
  • People

• I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

  

  Kenneth Langone