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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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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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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I think nudity is related to everything.
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Confidence, the sexiest thing I put on in the morning.
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It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love America to support this effort with selective patronage campaigns to encourage media that provides uplifting content and to boycott the worst offenders, if necessary.
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I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
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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.
