Barbara Corcoran Quotes
Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I love nature.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
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Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
