Jamie Dimon Quotes
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
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I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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A while ago, I was starting to get bored with my routine, so I tried Spinning and fell in love with it instantly. I go to class three times a week, without fail. I always get there early so I can sit in the front of the studio, and I'm ready to go as soon as the instructor comes in.
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I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
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We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
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Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing. That is, if the one giving the example is not saying to himself, 'Behold I am giving an example.' That spoils it. Anyone thinking of the example he will give to others has lost his simplicity. Only as a man has simplicity can his example influence others.
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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
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The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.
