James P. Gorman Quotes
Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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I do have a regular childhood.
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Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
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Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.
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Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
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Women have to support other women.
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I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
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Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.
