Laurence D. Fink Quotes
When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
