James P. Gorman Quotes
The threshold question: Will banks continue to exist? The answer is yes, because society will still need the two essential functions they provide: mobilization of capital from providers to users, and facilitation of payments for goods and services.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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I aroused Judith’s contempt by asking what good all this was likely to do to mankind? There is no question that annoys your true scientist more.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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It feels great, definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense.
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Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.
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The threshold question: Will banks continue to exist? The answer is yes, because society will still need the two essential functions they provide: mobilization of capital from providers to users, and facilitation of payments for goods and services.
