Lloyd Blankfein Quotes
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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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.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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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.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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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.
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Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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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.
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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.
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Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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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.
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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.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
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Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.
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People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.
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Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
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To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
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To the extent I bloomed, I'm a late bloomer.
