Douglas Brunt Quotes
Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped. (p. 309)
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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
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Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings.
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Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.
