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'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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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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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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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
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I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.
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With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
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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.
