Gary Weiss Quotes
Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
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People love gentle larceny.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
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Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
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Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
