Ed Seykota Quotes
Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.
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'Every apostle or disciple,' Mrs. Clarke says, 'as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.'
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Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.
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I think acting is therapeutic for me.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
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Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.
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Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
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George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
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Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.
