Ed Seykota Quotes
If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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I think it is the ability to tackle difficult problems in a sort of stable and supportive environment. I think that is the real key to it.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
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The fate of farm animals is not an ethical side issue. It concerns the majority of Earth's large creatures: tens of billions of sentient beings, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, but who live and die as cogs in an industrial production line.
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People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
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Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.
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I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.
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It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
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If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.
