Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes
I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.Stephen A. Schwarzman
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Jack Markell -
Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
Taylor Lautner -
No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
Ed Koch -
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
Danica Patrick -
I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
Calvin Johnson
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Jack Adams -
I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
Gary Coleman -
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
Garry Marshall -
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
Najib Razak -
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
Gary Oldman -
The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
Malcolm Turnbull
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
Naomi Wolf -
It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West -
'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
Tanith Lee -
How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?
Andrew Marvell -
Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.
Alexandre Dumas -
Gsell: What astonishes me, is that your way is so different from that of other sculptors. They prose the model. Instead of that, you wait till a model has instinctively or accidentally taken an Interesting pose, and thon you reproduce It. Instead of your giving orders to the model, the model gives orders to you.
Auguste Rodin
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I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I should be delighted to accept it as a description of myself. That little sounds the right note of affection. It is little England I love.
J. B. Priestley -
There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.
Kevin Yoder -
I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
Christa Campbell -
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
Clive Anderson -
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
Vincent Van Gogh -
I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.
Stephen A. Schwarzman