Sanford I. Weill Quotes
I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.
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President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
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I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time talking to folks in rural America. The president Barack Obama has been there, but other than the president and vice president, we have had not a whole lot of conversation in rural America.
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To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?
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The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
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I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
