Whitney Tilson Quotes

I am part of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. By that, I mean that I am fortunate to be a wealthy American, and I say, 'It's okay to raise my taxes.'

Whitney Tilson

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There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

Joel Edgerton

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Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

Max Cannon

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From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants today.

Max Heindel

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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

Amy Tan

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When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.

Amanda de Cadenet

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Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.

Mary Halvorson

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The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Mike Birbiglia

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I have not always been a risk taker.

Julia Hartz

RiskAlwaysBeen

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

Bonnie Raitt

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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Alice Hoffman

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That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

Pierce Brosnan

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The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Philip Guston

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