Gary Weiss Quotes

The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

Gary Weiss

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HeartRisksFinancialTaking Risks

When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Joe Posnanski

Growing UpHonorAmericanLatePause

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

John Buchanan Robinson

HappinessPeopleSympathyYouWill

I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.

Melonie Diaz

FunnyMyselfTryingPilotHollywood

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

Amiri Baraka

PeopleMeYouKnowKindNatural

I trained myself to perform on the field.

Steve Carlton

MyselfFieldPerformTrained

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

Stanley Spencer

GoodTogetherMeMeaningYouFirst

You cannot be against a raise in the minimum wage and for cutting government assistance and still say that you are worried about the people living in poverty.

Ron Crumpton

GovernmentPeoplePovertyYouLiving

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

Michelle Dockery

FunnyMeAlwaysSeeSideThings

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

DareDifficultThingsVenture

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

Jose Mourinho

TimeTeamStrongSayWillSame

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

Chick Hearn

WorkLoveMeFreeTellBosses

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

HeartGreatMeLiteratureCharacters

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