"I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that."

-- Robin Pecknold

#Band Quotes #Hanging Out Quotes

“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
“Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with â€˜Sorry, I donâ€™t do booksâ€™? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with â€˜Sorry, I donâ€™t do Facebookâ€™?”
“If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.”
“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

Source : "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.
“The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.”
“Years teach us more than books.”
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”

Source : Polly Bergen (1974). “Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does”, Peter H. Wyden Incorporated
“Don't let other people tell you what you want.”

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