Cliff Asness Quotes
Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.
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Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.
