Jeremy Grantham Quotes
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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Since I was a little girl, I've collected ladybugs. Not real ones - I never had a weird ladybug farm!
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I am around ladies' clothing all day long, and I get real sick of clothes.
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In the Twenties and Thirties, refrigerated railcars allowed growers to transport apples over great distances, and, thanks to cold-storage warehouses, wholesalers and retailers could keep them for long periods of time.
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When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.
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I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
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One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
