"I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out."
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"I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will."
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"I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point."
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"It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do."
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"We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do."
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"I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that."
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"If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble."
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"It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with."
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"I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall."
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"I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years."
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"This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force."
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"I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For some people, it's running. For some people, it's affirmations. For me, it's photographs and drawings, and affirmations, and statues, and crystals. I fill my writing space and I fill my home with symbols of what I think of as higher energy."
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"I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat."
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"I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office."
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"I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas."
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"I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go."
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"This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces."
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"All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him."
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"Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer."
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"How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?"
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