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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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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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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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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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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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I don't like allegories.
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He who gets the best players usually wins.
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The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.
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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.
