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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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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The site will have two medical office-type uses. Basically, they'll be identical buildings.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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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.
