Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

Don't go into something you actually don't know much about, in the hopes that you're going to get really financially successful and rewarded... even though people think you're, like, terrific.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.

John Cameron Mitchell

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You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

Megan Fox

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

John Holt

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I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry V.' Plays aren't puzzles. They are about playing. But so much theatre has become about performing and acting rather than playing, which is a great pity because audiences are captivated by watching people play.

Robert Lepage

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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Jeffrey Sachs

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If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Steven Wright

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I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

Rose McGowan

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I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Michelle Obama

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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

Dick Cavett

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The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

Christian Louboutin

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I don't even know how to behave without my sleep. I would be a horrible person to be around - cranky.

Bozoma Saint John

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