Harry Markowitz Quotes

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• I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Me

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• 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.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Intensity

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

  Jane Gardam
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Problems
  • Increase
  • Statue

• Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Yourself
  • Create
  • Poem

• People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • People
  • Individual
  • Reasons

• Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

  

  Euripides
  • Ocean
  • Savage
  • Creature

• Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Destiny
  • Worst
  • Transmute

• Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Living
  • Old

• Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Life
  • Magic
  • Mystery

• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Book
  • Child
  • Rule

• The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.

  

  William Topaz McGonagall
  • Home
  • Rule
  • Drunk

• We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

  

  Harry Markowitz
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  • Investor