#appealed

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#brutal #brutality #came #elegant #found

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appealed #audience #cords #douglas #effort

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months. ↗

— Gregory Hines

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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#appealed #fact #first #first thing #great

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ↗

— William Cowper

#blest #blood #chills #each #hear

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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