Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

Every year, I speak to our new associates and give them this advice, although in my own words. 'This isn't like school,' I tell them, 'where you want to get your hand in the air and give an answer quickly. The only grade here is 100. Deadlines are important, but at Blackstone you can always get help in meeting them.'

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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To be honest, most of the time you leave the theater, and you're like, 'Well, that was nice, but where did I park?' It doesn't really stick with you.

Joe Carnahan

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All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Maya Lin

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We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

Andy Grove

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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

Anand Giridharadas

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When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.

Tom Hanks

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There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

Rory O'Malley

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Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Russell Baker

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My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Martin Sheen

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The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

Marvin Sapp

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My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

Louis Sachar

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America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by Donald Trump and his Republican party.

Joseph Stiglitz

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We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and users themselves.

Jonathan Zittrain

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