Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • Disaster

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Future
  • Moment
  • Year

• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Stupid
  • Popular

• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blessed
  • Opportunities
  • Been

• I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Effective
  • Storyteller
  • Expert

• It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • History
  • Rights
  • Greatest

• War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • Country
  • War
  • Crime

• I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Country
  • Money

• ...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Future
  • Past

• Once stock prices reach the point at which it is hard to value them by logical methodology, stocks will be bought as they were in the late 1920s not for investment but to be unloaded at a still higher price. The ensuing break could be disastrous because panic psychology cannot be summarily altered or reversed by easing money policies.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Money
  • Value
  • Psychology

• Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

  

  Eric Fischl
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Deep

• I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

  

  Amrita Acharia
  • Business
  • Psychology

• Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

  

  Anas Aremeyaw Anas
  • Society
  • Community

• The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

  

  Paul Watson

• Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • God
  • Morning
  • Couple

• Mr. Wurlitzer, I am now in a position to receive your organ.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Strong
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

  

  Annie Smith Peck
  • Hurt
  • Lions
  • Tigers

• Profound questions regarding the purpose of life have led many individuals and families throughout the world to search for truth. Often that search has led them to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to the restored gospel.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Life
  • World
  • Truth

• For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • World
  • Culture
  • Understanding