James P. Gorman Quotes
Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.
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What you remember saves you.
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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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Everything in the world today happened to Tony, and he still finished fifth. I got to tell you, that's pretty miraculous right there.
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Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators have largely viewed these international standards as a floor, and imposed higher standards on U.S. institutions.
