Barry Ritholtz Quotes
Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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I am not a fan of books.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
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Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
