Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes
We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.
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Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
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I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.
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We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.
