Bruce Kovner Quotes

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
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  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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  • History
  • Progress

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • World
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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Man
  • Opportunity

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Nature
  • Man

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
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  • Remember
  • Saying

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Dad
  • Mom

• Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Political

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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  • Giving
  • Education

• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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  • Small

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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  • Parents

• Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

  

  Edie Falco
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  • Love
  • Reading

• I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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  • Laugh
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• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• I'd love to do a big hair campaign for L'Oreal, and Prada would be great, too, obviously.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Great
  • Campaign
  • Obviously

• I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Hamlet

• I came to NBC on 'Friday Night Lights' and they have supported that show and found ways - unprecedented ways - to keep it on the air for a long time. And when I came to them with the idea of doing 'Parenthood,' they not only supported me in doing it but also got behind it in such a way that we were able to put together this incredible cast.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

  

  Bruce Kovner
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