William Poundstone Quotes
The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
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Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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All dread those things they don't understand.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.
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If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.
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The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.
