Marc Faber Quotes
My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Values are more important than money.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
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I have this ongoing obsession with Meryl Streep.
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No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
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My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.
