Warren Buffett Quotes
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters.
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To me, you look at both of those games, the turnovers are the biggest issue, and the turnovers lead to all the other problems.
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I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.
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I have proposed I would not add a penny to the debt and Donald Trump plans would add $5 trillion to the debt.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
