"The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird."
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"My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him."
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"Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural."
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"Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life."
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"The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language for you. 'Here I am within you.' That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen."
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"Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom."
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"All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies."
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"The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game."
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"Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends."
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"The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage."
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"A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity."
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"Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price."
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"I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear."
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"It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it."
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"I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life."
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"I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded."
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"Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now."
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"We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes."
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"As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel."
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"I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure."
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