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.David Sklansky
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
Fiona Shaw -
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 -
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 -
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 -
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
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
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu -
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
James Earl Jones -
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
Bob Barr -
Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.
Alek Wek -
No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
Bobbi Kristina Brown -
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
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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 -
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 -
I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.
Holly Hunter -
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
Frank Gehry -
Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
Jim Rogers -
Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?
Oswald Chambers
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
Yolanda Adams -
Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I think that our reliance on dynasty is part of the problem here, because dynasty is inherently undemocratic. It's a very entitled thing to suggest that only one member of one family can save a country of 180 million people. It has to be about people who live in constituencies coming forward to represent them, not the sort of parachuted, elite class that comes in, wins elections and then leaves.
Fatima Bhutto -
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