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.
Quotes to Explore
-
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
-
I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
-
I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
-
I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
-
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.
-
Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
-
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
-
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.
-
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
-
I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
-
Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
-
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
-
I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama.
-
I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.
-
There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly. The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.
-
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.
