Ed Seykota Quotes
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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I have no guitar technique.
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We're just like a regular family.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
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What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.
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To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.
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I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
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To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
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I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
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I used to always judge other people's mistakes in the mountains. I think a bit differently now. Everybody's gotten away with a mistake or poor decision out there at one point or another, but sometimes it catches up to you, or sometimes you're just plain unlucky.
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Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
