Kurt Eichenwald Quotes
The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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Values are more important than money.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.
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You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.
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Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.
