Alex Berenson Quotes
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.
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Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
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When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
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Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.
