J. P. Morgan Quotes
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.
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Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.
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I grew up hearing, 'You're pretty for a black girl,' 'You speak well for a black girl...' I was really bookish. I was reading all of the time. I had big glasses.
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Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.
