Warren Buffett Quotes
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
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If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
