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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Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
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I do not believe in diversification. Take a close look at some of the greatest entrepreneurs in U.S. history. Henry Ford never diversified; Bill Gates didn’t diversify. I strongly believe that the best way to create real wealth is to put one’s eggs in one basket and watch that basket (the right one) very carefully. In fact, one can go broke diversifying.
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I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.
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Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.
