Jeremy Grantham Quotes
The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
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Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
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When the family dies, the nation follows.
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I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.
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One always saw and sees through pretense.
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The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.
