Lloyd Blankfein Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I've talked a lot with Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Being on Team PokerStars with them has helped me out quite a bit. I've traveled around Europe playing with them. I've also talked with Robert Williamson here and there and Jim Worth. So I've had some good people to talk to and bounce ideas off of.
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Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.
