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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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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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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Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
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The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane She's too alive to try to live alone And I know her needs And although she loves me She's gonna try to make it While the poor boy's gone Somebody should tell her to live And I'll understand it And even love her more When I come back home
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I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.
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And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.
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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.
