Bill Janklow Quotes

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Bill Janklow

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• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Copy

• I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Return
  • Dreaming
  • Informed

• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Want
  • Step
  • Brand

• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Wedding
  • Boat

• But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Man
  • Black

• I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Job
  • Reading

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• They say a woman's placeIs to wait and serveUnder the veilSubmissive and dearBut I think my placeIs in a ship from spaceTo carry meThe hell out of here.

  

  Laura Nyro

• The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Die

• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • May
  • Criticism

• I like men mathematics with any great agility, but now I sensed it as a hard grid of truth underlying everything: bones shining through the thin flesh of the world.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Work

• When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Good
  • Hope

• Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Brain
  • Manipulation

• My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

  

  David Chalmers
  • Science

• I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Desire

• There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Parents
  • Ways

• I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Issue
  • Scientists
  • Human Life

• Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

  

  Madeleine Bunting
  • Children
  • Car
  • Cutting

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

  

  Bill Janklow