Eugene Fama Quotes
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of your control. But you can control expenses.
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Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
