David Wessel Quotes
Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I love going to second-hand stores.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
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I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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My guess is that if David Beckham wants Ronaldo's jersey, he's going to get it.
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When I'm not dancing, I usually just like to keep it comfy. Even if I'm just going to dinner, I'll wear jeans or something, but if I'm not dancing, I usually just have a comfy outfit on.
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I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?
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When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
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The most valuable insight I have made about how people make decisions is that when they become skilled they don't have to make decisions - choices between options. Instead, they can draw on experience and the patterns they have acquired to recognize what to do, ignoring other options. This is the basis of the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model my colleagues and I described thirty years ago.
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You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.
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Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.
