Michael Burry Quotes
I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
-
I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
-
I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
-
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
-
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
-
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
-
I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
-
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
-
I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
-
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
-
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
-
Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
-
If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
-
Nobody wants to retire from football.
-
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
-
In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
-
It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
-
Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
-
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
-
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
-
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
-
Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"
-
I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.
