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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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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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies.
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I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
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The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.
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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.
