Lloyd Blankfein Quotes

You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.

Lloyd Blankfein

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I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Jenny Holzer

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I like to just hang out. My friends don't like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times I'm busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.

Jenna Boyd

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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

John le Carre

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I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Tom Hanks

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You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.

Russell Peters

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I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

Rush Limbaugh

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I don't really want to leave anything in life behind. We have bad experiences, we have difficult experiences, but if you leave everything behind, you have no past.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

Chip Conley

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There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Corin Tucker

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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

Bob Black

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I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.

Ariana Grande

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In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

Peter Riegert

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