Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

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Kenneth C. Griffin

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• It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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  • Different
  • Important

• I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Remember

• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
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  • Fun
  • Support

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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  • Great
  • Movie

• You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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  • Job
  • Education

• Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

  

  J. Tillman
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  • Power
  • Funny

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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  • Music
  • Ideas

• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
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  • Day

• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
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  • Exercise

• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

  

  Val Kilmer
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  • Business
  • Lucky

• Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

  

  Victor LaValle
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  • Fear
  • Understanding

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
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  • Different
  • Women

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Together
  • Wisdom

• Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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  • Power
  • Exercise

• I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.

  

  Natasha Little
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  • Difficult
  • Blessing

• Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

  

  Lee Haney
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  • Small
  • Exercise

• For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

  

  Bette Midler
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  • Eating

• People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
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  • Up
  • Batman

• In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Great
  • Power
  • Understanding