James P. Gorman Quotes

Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.

James P. Gorman

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• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• 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.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Live
  • Society
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Lead
  • Rise
  • Employment

• 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.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Women
  • Job

• There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Songwriting

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Different
  • Faith

• For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • inspirational
  • Defeat

• I do have a regular childhood.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Childhood
  • Regular

• 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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Business
  • Night
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Change
  • Ideas

• When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Control

• His performance in the Rose Bowl was one for the ages. I'm glad I saw it in person and glad I have it on tape.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Performance
  • Ages
  • Rose Bowl

• For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Needs
  • Firsts
  • Plant

• Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People
  • City
  • Diversity

• He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

  

  Plutarch
  • Opinion
  • Destroyed
  • Senate

• Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.

  

  James P. Gorman