Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes
One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
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One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.
