Kenneth Langone Quotes
The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
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The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.
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I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.
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You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.
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The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.
