David Bonderman Quotes

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
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• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

  

  Parminder Nagra
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• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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• I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

  

  Wayne Knight
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• There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
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• I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  

  Barry Goldwater
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• I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.

  

  Mark Haddon
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• The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

  

  Jack Welch
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• We picked up Madonna at The Ritz to go to the Gaultier show together, and she took off her coat. At this point she hadn’t even said a word to me, but she leaned over and said to me, Anna, I have a surprise for you, and she showed me she was wearing my dress.

  

  Anna Sui
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• A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

  

  David Bonderman
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