Benjamin Graham Quotes
Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.
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My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.
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At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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The bikini waxing, after we go there you can't turn back.
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I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
