William Poundstone Quotes
Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.
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The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.
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Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
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The best moments of my working life are when I find people who are passionate about what they do. That happens a lot in film, and it's an exciting experience that creates its own energy. I think that underlying care and passion is key in any successful company.
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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
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It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.
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All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.
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It wasn't just Willie and Waylon, there were a lot of influences there. The coolest thing about this, is after getting to listen back to all these mixes is realizing that this record is like a bag of Skittles; every time you pull something out, it's a different flavor. But they're all Skittles. They're all Cody Johnson.
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Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
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I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.
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Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.
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Putting yourself in others’ shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do.
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Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.
