"If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something itâ€™s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?"

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Source : Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.176, Bantam

Jordan Belfort

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“I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.”
“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”

Source : "On Being Conservative". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1956.
“Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
“There's a belief that whatever it is I'm looking for is out there, but I have a really difficult time finding it. Search algorithms alone are falling short in being able to provide real context around information.”
“I've come in and out of America for... well, I've lived here for 15 years. And I've played here for nearly 30 years. On and off. But I've always played to my fan base. And I can come and do two or three nights in New York or two or three nights in L.A., and all that. But when I go away, nobody knows I've been gone. You know, I don't get reviewed or anything like that. So that's why I've come back and done a longer time in a smaller place, in New York. It's always the people who live here that get a chance to know me.”
“Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography .”

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