James Chanos Quotes
Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.
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N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.
