Mohnish Pabrai Quotes

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Something

• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Achieve

• We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Family
  • Think
  • Mirror

• I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Weird
  • Kid
  • Roles

• I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

  

  Ian Rush
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• Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • She
  • Wife
  • New

• Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Wish

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Luxury

• The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Global

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Daily
  • Walk
  • Island

• Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

  

  Val Guest
  • Different
  • America
  • Earth

• Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Time
  • Family
  • School

• Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

  

  Daryn Kagan
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  • Mind
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• Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

  

  John Shimkus
  • Time
  • Real
  • Help

• I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Time
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