Adena Friedman Quotes
Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.
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Broadway is really my life.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
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I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
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On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
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Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.
