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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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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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.
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Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed.
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When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.
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What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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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)
