Dan Gilbert Quotes
When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
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Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
