Benjamin Graham Quotes
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
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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.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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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.
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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.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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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.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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The whole world is a man's birthplace.
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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.
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I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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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.
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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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.
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
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I am a very, very avid 'Anchorman' fan.
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It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.
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Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
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I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
