Warren Buffett Quotes
I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death - abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.
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The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
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A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.
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For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I’ve done, he thought; that’s become alien to me. In fact everything has become unnatural; I’ve become an unnatural self.
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Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.
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I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death - abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'
