Michael Hintze Quotes
When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
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The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.
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There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.
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When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.
