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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I had sadness for breakfast.
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I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different decisions that need to be made with each script and it's the good directors that can make those decisions. It's a long and complicated process in regards to what looks good on paper. Working on a bad film can be fun too. It can be a good exercise that gets you writing.
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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.
