Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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I don't really believe in regrets.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.
