Whitney Tilson Quotes

Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or a two, you're doing well. Statistically speaking, you throw the dice enough times, you're going to throw a one or a two five times in a row, and you're going to look pretty foolish, right?

Whitney Tilson

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You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.

Jodie Foster

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There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

Andrew Dominik

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In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.

Andrew McCarthy

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Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.

John Hickenlooper

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Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

Matt Stone

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You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.

Jeff Smisek

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You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.

Angela Ahrendts

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I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.

Jeff Dunham

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What's demanded from us black creatives is both a blessing and a curse, because it pushes you to be your absolute best. You cannot be anything less.

Tomi Adeyemi

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I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

Mickey Rourke

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Cub Swanson was the first to talk a lot on fight week in the WEC, and I got there and ran through him.

Jose Aldo

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I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

Dizzy Gillespie

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