Lloyd Blankfein Quotes

To the extent I bloomed, I'm a late bloomer.

Lloyd Blankfein

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • House
  • Body
  • Room

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Help
  • Moving

• I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Idea

• Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • You
  • Know
  • Cool

• As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Human
  • Accidents
  • Genetic

• The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • For Her
  • I Love
  • Give

• The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Camera
  • Push
  • Digital

• Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Fun
  • You
  • Group

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Way
  • Baseball

• My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sleep

• The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Grows
  • Statue
  • Wastes

• The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Work
  • Character
  • Interesting

• All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.

  

  John Updike
  • Society

• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • History
  • Without
  • Defeat

• 'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

  

  David Morrissey
  • People
  • Evil

• To the extent I bloomed, I'm a late bloomer.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein