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.

Jeremy Grantham

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Difficult

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Good
  • Communication
  • Obscure

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Alive

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• 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?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Live
  • Independent
  • Place

• I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Person
  • Public
  • Written

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• I make good music for long journeys.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.

  

  Bernice King
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Movie

• A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Real
  • Family
  • Confidence