Cliff Asness Quotes
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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We were descended from royalty.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
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A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.
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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
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Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.
