Barry Ritholtz Quotes
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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Dreams are our spiritual illustrated discovery journals.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.
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The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
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What I like best about music is when time goes away.
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Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
