Karen Finerman Quotes
When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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I'm a big Gorillaz fan.
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Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
