Michael Burry Quotes
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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Health food makes me sick.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
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It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
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That's why I'm going to kill you and see how Haruhi Suzumiya reacts.
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We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast.
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I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
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We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
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My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.
