Bruce Kovner Quotes
Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.
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The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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Sometimes people identified too strongly with the famous—it was one of the prices of notoriety, especially when so many considered you to be a hero. Batman sometimes filled much too large a hole in people’s lives.
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The difference between an echo chamber and a filter bubble in my mind is an echo chamber you choose to in with likeminded people, a filter bubble chooses you and you don't really see it.
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Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.
