Bill Gross Quotes
Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
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A moment or an eternity-did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.
