Burton Malkiel Quotes
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn't, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn't sound very trustworthy to me.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
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I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?
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Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
