Edwin Lefevre Quotes
No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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My workout philosophy is; no pain, no pain
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Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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I see these other actors come up with this tough-guy personas and now when they're on talk shows they're all... But that's not really the way they are. I probably could have used a little bit of that. At one point I was labeled "The King Of Dumb White Guys." I was offended by that when I was younger, but I understand what that's from, so I was like, "Only a genius can play a fool." But I'm very aware of that, and I'll play into it and use it however I need to use it.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.
