Burton Malkiel Quotes
We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
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From the kids on the neighborhood Stag Athletic Club baseball team on the Hill. We went to a movie one afternoon, and there was one of those yogi characters in the picture. Coming out of the joint, one of the kids looked at me, started laughing, and said: 'Hey, Berra walks just like that yogi in the movie.' I've been Yogi ever since.
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After a conflict, women are not only more likely to turn to other womenfriends for support, but are nine times more likely to be with their children should conflict become divorce.
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Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
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When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.
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I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.
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It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.
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I'd love to direct more.
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After I've knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what's awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!
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A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.
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I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.
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Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
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If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.
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Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.
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I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person.
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There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.
