Ray Dalio Quotes
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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I was tested against the best.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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'I'll put a word in for you, Sharpe, because a man shouldn't be disciplined for killing the enemy, but I don't suppose my help will do you any good.'
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'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.
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To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
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Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
