Maurice Allais Quotes
In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.
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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
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I watch clothes on other people, and it's like having a conversation before opening your mouth. For me, clothes come from the mind. They represent what's happening inside, and as long as they feel honestly like what I'm thinking about and going toward, I'm happy to bounce around and experience different things.
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
