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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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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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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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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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.
