Barry Ritholtz Quotes
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.
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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
