James Chanos Quotes
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there.
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
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The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.
