James Chanos Quotes
The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
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Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
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Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.
