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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Modesty is my best quality.
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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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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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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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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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I'm visually stimulated, so I watch TV, movies, even Pinterest. A song could come from something as simple as being words splashed across a billboard or changing everyday turns of phrases.
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'The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...'
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When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
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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.
