Benjamin Graham Quotes
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I am happy in Paris.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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If you can't get up in the morning and laugh at yourself, don't get out of bed.
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Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.
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Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
