Warren Buffett Quotes
You can’t make a good deal with a bad person. '23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity' forbes.com (02 December 2013)
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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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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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Those who go along get along.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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The fundamentals of the token model are valuable and powerful. They allow communities to govern themselves, their economics, and rally a community in powerful ways that will allow open systems to flourish in a way that was previously impossible.
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'
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Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!
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In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
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You can’t make a good deal with a bad person. '23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity' forbes.com (02 December 2013)
