Edwin Lefevre Quotes
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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The scribbler's life is never done.
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To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.
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I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
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People will say, 'How do I get abs like you?' I don't know. We're all different. If my girlfriend did what I did, hiking and yoga for a workout, it would affect her body in a different way. That's the message that I really want to get out there. I'm trying to counteract that culture.
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Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.
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I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.
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My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.
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Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.
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Those two throws, absolutely you couldn't throw them any better than that.
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.
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It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
