Lloyd Blankfein Quotes
The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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I'm always preparing for a regular life.
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Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
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I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
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The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong.
