Benjamin Graham Quotes

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

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• I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Self-destructive
  • Inherently

• He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Learn
  • Talent
  • Dedication

• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Bad
  • Actor
  • First

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Job

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• I like most any place if I have Internet access.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Most

• The whole world is a man's birthplace.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • World
  • Man
  • Birthplace

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • School
  • Team

• I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Better
  • Say

• Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Poverty
  • Retirement

• Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Lifetime
  • Every Man

• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
  • Love

• Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Women
  • Understand

• Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • May

• We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Like
  • Always
  • Circus

• The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

  

  James Howell
  • God
  • Devil

• The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Wise

• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Friends
  • Death
  • Soldier

• Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

  

  Benjamin Graham