Jesse Livermore Quotes
The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
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I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.
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The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
