Kenneth Lay Quotes
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Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.
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I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
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We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they're call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.
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My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.
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Every thought we think is creating our future.
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Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.
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The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.
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In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.
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Investors don't like uncertainty.
