Lloyd Blankfein Quotes
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
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Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.
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All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.
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If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.
