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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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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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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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
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There is no more beautiful scenery or climate for summer travel than Switzerland presents. The people are industrious and honest, simple and frugal in their habits, and would be very poor with all this, if it were not from the travel through their country. I wish their surplus population would emigrate to the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals.
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But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
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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.
