Jesse Livermore Quotes
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
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Jesus, give the wearyCalm and sweet repose.With Thy tend'rest blessingMay our eyelids close.
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
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He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
