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 know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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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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There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
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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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I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.
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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
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It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.
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It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.
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My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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.
