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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It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
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Freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please don't associate me with any of this. This is not jazz. These are sick people.
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I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
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I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.
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If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.
