Warren Buffett Quotes
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I aspire only to silence.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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Custom is second nature.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.
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I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
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To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
