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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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 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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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I am always on the women's side.
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The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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On each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have renewed their sense of dedication to the United States.
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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.
