Bill Ackman Quotes
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
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At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.
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In the year 2000, the very youngest members of the Baby Boomer crew were in their mid-30s while the oldest Boomers were mid-50s. That year, the Boomers were a generation divided somewhat equally between the GOP and Democrats.
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The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.
