David Einhorn Quotes
Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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(The Giants) completely dominated us the first go-around. We have a lot at stake and I know the Giants do, too. I think it's a big deal that you play the 15th game of the year and it's for something important. ... I get uptight because you worry about having to play the Giants. I don't like doing that, but we got a lot riding on it and I know New York does too.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.
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Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.
