Benjamin Graham Quotes
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.
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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
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Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.
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The United States, Russia, and China are the only three countries in the world that can launch astronauts into space. Mostly in the U.S. you see some companies trying to launch private commercial people into space, but nobody's done it yet. The only private vehicle that's made it into space so far is Spaceship 1 in 2004, and that was an effort that was funded by one of the Microsoft founders, and he spent about $20 million to develop this spacecraft to do a sub-orbital flight. And it's not the same as going into orbit, but it was a huge first step.
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There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
