Ed Seykota Quotes
The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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My personal life is also cinema.
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie.
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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
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Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
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The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.
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The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.
