Felix Rohatyn Quotes
Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.Felix Rohatyn
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
Damien Hirst -
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel -
The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.
Warren Spector -
The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
Nancy Kress -
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
Adam Grant -
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
E. V. Lucas
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss -
When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
Karin Slaughter -
I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
Kacey Musgraves -
I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
Rachel Platten -
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
Dan Shechtman -
I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
Florentijn Hofman
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
Rachel Griffiths -
I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
Zack Greinke -
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
Yoko Ono -
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
Joanne Rowling -
I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.
Zayn Malik One Direction
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What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
Pankaj Patel -
I prefer being able to choose who I want to help or what I want to improve in the world by making a lot of money myself rather than just going out there and talking about things. If you have money to do things, it's much better than just talking about them.
Kim Dotcom -
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw -
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity.
Raymond Queneau -
For almost every interview, I had to have others translate for me, and look for someone to do that. I had a lot of miserable moments. But my teammates treated me well and helped me gain confidence.
Carlos Ruiz -
Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.
Felix Rohatyn