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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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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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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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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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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The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.
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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.
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Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.
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I have things I say over and over again, for sure, but I've never wanted to make an album or really go on the road. I don't want any traction. I just want to be able to express myself and to feel love.
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I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.
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In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. It's been an interesting and happy ride since.
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People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
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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.
