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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You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.
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Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.
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We all have human emotions that rob our lives.
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I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.
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When they're good, I like working with new actors.
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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.
