Barry Ritholtz Quotes
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!'
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
