Sanford I. Weill Quotes
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I don't like allegories.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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I go to movies. I blend in.
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When people say I'm a star, I don't believe it.
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As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
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Life is just a bowl of pits.
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I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.
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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
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As a lifelong romance reader (who devours up to a book a day when my writing schedule permits!), my favorite romances have always been about families. I love following brothers and sisters and cousins from book to book, not only for the pleasure of watching them fall in love, but also to watch each of their love stories grow deeper and richer throughout the series.
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I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
