Warren Buffett Quotes
What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
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I think that if everybody committed themselves to making a better world than how we found it, things would be much better than what they are.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
