Barry Ritholtz Quotes

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

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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.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Fashion

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• 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.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• 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.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • War
  • Planning
  • Fair

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Quite

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Things
  • Worry

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

  

  Colette Dowling
  • Hands
  • Belief
  • Maturity

• I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Country
  • Love
  • Yourself

• They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Me
  • Like
  • Going

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Emotions
  • Flowers
  • Conflicts

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale