Lloyd Blankfein Quotes
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
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Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.
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For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.
