Barry Ritholtz Quotes
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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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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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.
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I was always opinionated.
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Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.
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In 'Winter Soldier' - in terms of character-based, 'Winter Soldier' was so specifically for us: everything in that movie was designed around that version of Captain America that we wanted to see, that we wanted to explore. Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.
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These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.
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Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
