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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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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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.
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They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.
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The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
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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.
