Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.

Kenneth C. Griffin

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What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Jimmy Wales

KnowledgePeopleMeHelpHands

I just go out and play golf.

Jimmy Walker

GolfPlayGoOutJustPlay Golf

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Tom Perrotta

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I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

Judy Blume

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As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

Jorge Ramos

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Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

Cory Lidle

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In school I related to boys.

Chaz Bono

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All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

Bruce Springsteen

MusicBeautifulChildPeopleThought

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

StrengthStarsMomentChallengesYou

If a third of Americans' time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It's not proportional.

Susan Wojcicki

TimeWhyBeingQuarterOnlyOnline

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Sherilyn Fenn

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My style would be whatever I look my best in.

Nushrat Bharucha

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