Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Zedong -
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
Gail Collins -
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
Sam Walton -
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
Octavia E. Butler
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Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
Amitabh Bachchan -
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
Maureen Forrester -
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
David Hume -
If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.
James Worthy -
Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.
Alexandra Daddario -
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
Matt LeBlanc
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I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.
Jerry Harrison Talking Heads -
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
Jane Wiedlin -
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
Craig Bruce -
I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.
Pete Rose -
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
Buddy Hackett -
I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.
John Frankenheimer
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If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.
Jim Ratcliffe -
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.
Gautama Buddha -
No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
Baba Hari Dass -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!
Jasper Fforde -
Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.
Mike Donehey Tenth Avenue North -
If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.
Stephen A. Schwarzman