Mohnish Pabrai Quotes
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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As for Sisley, I just can't enjoy his work visiting the Paris Impressionism-exhibition of art-dealer M. Petit, May 1887, it is commonplace, forced, disordered; Sisley has a good eye, and his work will certainly charm all those whose artistic sense is not very refined.
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I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
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Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'
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Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.
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People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
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When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.
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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.
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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
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Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
