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 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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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 bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I don't wish my career on anyone.
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If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.
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This very real difference between GM plants and their conventional counterparts is one of the basic truths that biotech proponents have endeavoured to obscure. As part of the process, they portrayed the various concerns as merely the ignorant opinions of misinformed individuals – and derided them as not only unscientific, but anti-science.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.
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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.
