Gerald M. Loeb Quotes
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
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A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.
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I'm an afternoon person.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only.
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The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
