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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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'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.
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This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
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My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.
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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.
