Warren Stephens Quotes
We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.
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When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.
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We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.
