Andrew Lo Quotes

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

Andrew Lo

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My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

Andrew Mitchell

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No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

Anchee Min

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The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.

John McAfee

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I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.

St. Lucia

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In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

Tommy Caldwell

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It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

Tom Irwin

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I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Bryan Callen

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With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

Alia Shawkat

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There have been a lot of things where communities haven't been portrayed in a positive light, and even when we were doing 'Youngers' in Peckham, people were cautious about what we were filming.

Percelle Ascott

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Everyone has their down days. Unfortunately, that's when I am the most prolific.

Sharon Van Etten

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Writers are nerds.

Shane Black

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