Warren Buffett Quotes
You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.
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'Programming' is a four-letter word.
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Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.
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I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.
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You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat.
