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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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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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.
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But that which is useful is the better.
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Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.
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Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
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If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.
