James Chanos Quotes

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

James Chanos

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SimplePeopleGrowDubaiTryingYou

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

Jet Li

GoodWifeMountainActionProblems

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

John Grierson

GoodHappinessSchoolPhilosophy

I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

Meghan Trainor

GoodMeEatingStrongEnoughYou

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

John Mahoney

FeelYouBoyEmotionalYesOut

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Michael McCaul

WinningStrategyDefeatNeedPolicy

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

Judy Collins

DreamsMorningSongDreamDownWill

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Jay Griffiths

TimeGraceTimingIndividualSocial

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Jonathan Haidt

GoodSupportFindingYouFeelings

When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling arms, a cry and whirl of a world being remade. I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness, accompanied by a desire to yell out that they will be rescued.

Doug Stanton

MenWorldSadnessHorizonFeelLook

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

Drake Bell

LiveMeDreamPlayRockBand

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

Brad Paisley

WorldRealityFeelCyberOverTake

There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America.

Arlo Guthrie

PeopleWorldAmericaYouOthers

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