David Rubenstein Quotes
Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
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One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
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In 'The White Princess,' the women are leading the story, and they're holding everything together. It's definitely a world of women's empowerment.
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My grandfather always told me, 'You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.' It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.
