Barry Ritholtz Quotes
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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Africa is the future.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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You're never going to learn everything.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
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One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
