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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
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I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
