William D. Cohan Quotes

Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.

William D. Cohan

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After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

Joel Grey

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I love Audrey Hepburn; I love those silhouettes and T-length skirts and stuff. They're just very classy. I like to mix that look with quirkiness, kind of like how Katy Perry has that quirkiness.

Megan Nicole

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A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Southey

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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

Amy Chua

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Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

Rose George

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Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

Rose Namajunas

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I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

Mary Roach

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I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

Mindy Kaling

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The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

Brooke Shields

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People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

Arsene Wenger

WorkLivePeopleWorldBetterWell

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

Shia LaBeouf

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