Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.

Kenneth C. Griffin

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• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Reality
  • Honesty
  • Page

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Economy
  • Sales
  • Tax

• If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Respect
  • Passion

• And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Eye

• My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Law
  • Wife
  • Son

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Money

• The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • America
  • Idea
  • Newborn

• Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Me
  • Comedy

• What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Band

• I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Change
  • Need
  • Whatever

• The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Kind
  • Darkness

• Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do.

  

  Ralph Steadman

• Through its support of mass immigration, its paralysis in power to prevent 12-20 million illegal aliens from entering and staying, its failure to address the 'anchor-baby' issue, the Republican Party has birthed a new electorate that will send it the way of the Whigs.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • Support
  • Party

• After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

  

  Logic
  • Men

• It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Home
  • Space
  • Sleep

• It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Up
  • May

• When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird 1962, Gigi 1958, A Woman Under the Influence 1974. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Obsessed
  • Gena Rowlands
  • John Cassavetes

• Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Violence
  • Film
  • Betrayal

• I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin