Benjamin Graham Quotes
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of 'an abundance or surplus' arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.
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I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of 'an abundance or surplus' arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
