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.

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• As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Time
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  • Three

• 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
  • Hope
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  • Homosexual

• 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
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• 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
  • Time
  • Family
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• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
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• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
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• 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
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• 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
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Sword

• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

  

  Gary Oldman
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  • Piano
  • Got

• 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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• It takes two to get one in trouble.

  

  Mae West
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• 'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'

  

  Tanith Lee
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• How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?

  

  Andrew Marvell
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• 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
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• If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
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• I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Great

• My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • Great
  • Women
  • Dad

• A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Life
  • Important
  • Teenager

• Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

  

  Bill Forsyth
  • People
  • Life
  • Dark

• In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

  

  Paul Watzlawick
  • World
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• What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
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• 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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