James Chanos Quotes

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Kind
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

  

  James Balog
  • Air
  • Breathe

• I'm definitely a city kid.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • City

• I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

  

  David Mamet

• In Jiu-Jitsu, every instinct you have wants to do everything but relax or breathe when someone's attacking you, and learning that takes a long time. I think that's why a lot of people stop at blue belt because it's really hard to do. It's hard to take that next step. It took me a long time.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Happy

• My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

  

  Kim Campbell

• An interesting way into the celebrity interview podcast is via their dogs. Celebs may not be keen to let us into their homes, because they don't like us to see how wealthy they are. However, tell them you want to go for a walk on Hampstead Heath with them and their mutt, and they're only too happy.

  

  David Hepworth
  • May
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• I have a girl crush on Olivia Munn so much, especially on 'Newsroom.' And Cara Delevingne, but who doesn't love her face? Viola Davis is my acting crush.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Girl
  • Crush

• I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

  

  David James Elliott

• Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.

  

  John Fleming
  • Trump

• I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

  

  John Noble
  • Age

• I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Mind

• I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

  

  Jenny Offill
  • Personality

• Prolonged mimesis of the alphabet and its fragmenting properties produced a new dominant mode of perception and then of culture.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Culture
  • Perception

• Sonam Kapoor has a great style.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Great
  • Style

• In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Science
  • Words
  • Literature

• Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Time

• There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick.

  

  Alan Ryan
  • City
  • Views
  • Population

• We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.

  

  Mitchell Zuckoff
  • Economy
  • Built
  • Bubbles

• Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

  

  James Chanos
  • Bubbles