Ed Seykota Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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Money is power and power gives you choice.
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I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.
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I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
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Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.
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A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money
