Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes
We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I love my sleep.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I was tested against the best.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
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When you pump up your exercise, it makes you feel better and makes you look better, so you do a better job. It's mental, too.
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It would be great if companies could just magically know what I'm looking for on their website or what I'm coming to the website for.
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When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
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We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.
