Bob Diamond Quotes

Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Daughter
  • Editor

• I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Children
  • School
  • Want

• I never discuss discussions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Never
  • Discuss
  • Discussions

• When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Society
  • Opportunities

• Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Pregnant
  • Oh

• Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Dress

• Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Effort
  • Gold

• My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Life
  • Song
  • Words

• ...the bathroom which Crabbe visited showed signs that Moneypenny now regarded even a lavatory as supererogatory.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Stupid

• Once, adj. Enough.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• 'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Perspective
  • Plant

• I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Attitude

• My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Life
  • Country
  • Children

• I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Jump

• I've been lucky between 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' 'Alias,' and then 'Lost.' The thing they all have in common is that they were all fearless. They were not afraid to be different and try something different. Even if you didn't know that it was going to work, just try to do something new and fresh.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Work
  • Different
  • Lost

• When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Car

• No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• A lot of folks I mentor ask me, 'How did you get there?' I tell them, you never plan on it. Do a good job and treat customers well, do the right things for the right reasons. Prepare yourself, but don't spend all your time worrying about it. Just do your job, and you'll be recognized for it.

  

  Leanne Caret
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?

  

  Bob Diamond