Joe Mansueto Quotes
I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.
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I'm a guy who likes to keep fighting five, six times a year, so if I ask for too much money, they might say, 'Well, we pay you too much. We can't let you keep jumping backwards and forwards and promote it.' The money I'm making is good to keep grabbing short-notice fights. I love them; they're my favorite ones.
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If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.'
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Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.
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I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.
