Jamie Dimon Quotes
First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.
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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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Abraham was the first to teach the Unity of God, to establish the faith, to cause it to remain among coming generations, and to win his fellow-men to his doctrine; as Scripture says of him: 'I know him, that he will command,' &c. (Gen. xviii. 19)
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Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
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Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
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I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.
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I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
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One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.
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I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
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First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.
