Edwin Lefevre Quotes
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
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It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.
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I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
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I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service.
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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
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A good sketch is better than a long speech.
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That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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There were, like, 20 of Jackie Kennedy's biographies, which was interesting because they are not exactly high literature - they are pulpy.But the Arthur Schlesinger transcripts ended up being the most useful of anything.
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In many respects we have bought companies that are fundamentally strong, but have issues that we believe our management and our expertise can help resolve.
