Mel B (Melanie Janine Brown) Quotes
I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
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As children, we start off at the center of our own universe, where we interpret everything that happens from an egocentric vantage point. If our parents or grandparents keep telling us we’re the cutest, most delicious thing in the world, we don’t question their judgment—we must be exactly that. And deep down, no matter what else we learn about ourselves, we will carry that sense with us: that we are basically adorable. As a result, if we later hook up with somebody who treats us badly, we will be outraged. It won’t feel right: It’s not familiar; it’s not like home. But if we are abused or ignored in childhood, or grow up in a family where sexuality is treated with disgust, our inner map contains a different message. Our sense of our self is marked by contempt and humiliation, and we are more likely to think “he (or she) has my number” and fail to protest if we are mistreated.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.
