Barry Ritholtz Quotes
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
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Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.
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Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
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The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
