Bruce Kovner Quotes
Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to loseBruce Kovner
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
Nathaniel Branden -
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
Kate Christensen -
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
Rachel Corrie -
I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
Carl Lewis -
I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
Bebe Rexha -
If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
J. B. Smoove
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Abraham Maslow -
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Daniel Clowes -
My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
Adam Jones -
As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
Katee Sackhoff -
I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
Bam Margera
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
Iris Apfel -
For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
Jacki Weaver -
I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
D'Angelo -
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
Gary Lucas -
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
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The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.'
Adam Leipzig -
My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.
Zach Galifianakis -
I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
Samantha Morton -
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass -
I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.
Katharine Jefferts Schori -
Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose
Bruce Kovner