Robert Pozen Quotes
Things are running very well inside the investment arm of the company, and now is the right time for me to pass the baton to a new generation of leadership and return to a broader agenda of personal interests.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.
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My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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Things are running very well inside the investment arm of the company, and now is the right time for me to pass the baton to a new generation of leadership and return to a broader agenda of personal interests.
