Harry Markowitz Quotes
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
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If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
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We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.
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I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there's great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.
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When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
