"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances."
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"Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well."
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"Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me."
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"You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can."
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"It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives."
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"I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward."
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"I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced."
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"There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else."
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"That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine."
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"It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go."
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"Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition."
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"A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust."
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"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
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"Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt."
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"I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person."
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"If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark."
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"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."
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"I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with."
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"John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate."
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"When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway."
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