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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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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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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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
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I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.
