Warren Buffett Quotes
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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on Catholicism:
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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
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The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
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Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.
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The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
