David Sklansky Quotes

Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.

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• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Feelings
  • Nation
  • Feed

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Music
  • God

• I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reading

• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Man
  • Thoroughly
  • Godless

• I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Man

• Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Brain

• To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Understand
  • Realize

• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Magic

• It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Time
  • High

• Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Black
  • Rock

• I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Water

• No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.

  

  Bobbi Kristina Brown
  • She
  • Mother
  • Friend

• I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Lies

• My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Space

• Jezzebel, don’t know you well, but I’d like to. Let me let you know that I’m on, and I want you.

  

  Boyz II Men
  • Want
  • Know

• I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Man
  • Never
  • Gold

• At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.

  

  David Sklansky
  • Winning
  • Lose
  • Worst