James O'Shaughnessy Quotes
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.
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You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
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God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.
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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.