Peter Lynch Quotes

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

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• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Start

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Never
  • Old

• It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movie
  • Question
  • Exercise

• It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • People
  • Like
  • Drive

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fun

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Future
  • Moment
  • Year

• I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Chicago
  • Heavy
  • Assigned

• Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Crazy

• Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • World

• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  

  Peter Abelard
  • Truth

• I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Like
  • Body
  • Structure

• But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • World
  • Bad