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“Years later, (Paul) Jones described the mental gymnastics that went into writing these scripts. "Every evening I would close my eyes in a quiet place in my apartment ... I would visualize the opening and walk myself through the day and imagine the different emotional states the market would go through... Then when you get there, you are ready for it. You have been there before. You are in a mental state to take advantage of emotional extremes because you have already lived through them.”
― quote from More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.”
― quote from More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“He commuted to his Canadian office in a Ferrari, though sometimes snowy conditions forced him to use Bentley.”
― quote from More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“All new markets are inefficient at first,”
― quote from More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on.”
― quote from More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“Edward Crosby Johnson II, who in the 1950s established Fidelity as a dominant investment firm and made the same point in his own way: “The market is like a beautiful woman—endlessly fascinating, endlessly complex, always changing, always mystifying. I have been absorbed and immersed since 1924 and I know this is no science. It is an art…. It is personal intuition.”
― quote from More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“Got plans for the rest of the day ?"
"No plans," I whispered. Test drive your mattress? Let me pretend to be a Skittle and you can taste my rainbow? Fifty Shades me? Please ! Oh, holy horror, I'm freaking losing it. ”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Saving Grace
“There was a beat of silence before Sin said blandly, "I have occasional nightmares about us having a threesome with that meat-head. I'm far from being easily shocked."
"What?" Boyd looked completely taken aback, his eyebrows shooting up. "That's the last thing I thought I'd ever hear from you."
"It isn't exactly a voluntary thing. It's quite horrifying. I usually wake up before he can put his dick in me though." Sin made a revolted expression, his lips twisting in a scowl of disgust.
"So I shouldn't expect to be propositioned for this threesome too in the near future?" Boyd asked jokingly.
Sin stared at Boyd and didn't bother to reply.”
― Ais, quote from The Interludes
“يسيطر عليها الإحساس بوجوب إثارة القلق وخلق جو من البؤس بسبب الشعور بالواجب، فهي تنتمي إلى الطبقة الوسطى المتعفنة. إنها هيلدا التي تنجح دائما في قول شيئ يثير الكآبة حالما تطأ قدمك عتبة البيت. إنها تفعل أي شيئ بطريقة سلبية، فإن صنعت كعكة لا تفكر بالكعكة، بل بكيفية توفير الزبد والبيض، وعندما نكون في السرير معا، كل ما تفكر فيه هو الخوف من إنجاب طفل....إنها من الأشخاص الذين تكمن موهبتهم ومتعتهم الأساسية في الحياة باستباق وقوع المصائب الصغيرة فقط لأنها لا تهتم بالكبيرة منها كالحروب والمجاعات والزلازل والأوبئة والثورات، فكل ما يهمها هو أسعار الزبدة المرتفعة وفواتير الغاز الضخمة وأحذية الأولاد البالية وماتبقى من أقساط... هذا الخوف راسخ في عقلها”
― George Orwell, quote from Coming Up for Air
“most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked up but you’d never guess it because we’ve either become adept at hiding it or we’ve learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. There’s a quote from The Breakfast Club that goes “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.” I have it on a poster but I took a Sharpie to it and scratched out the word “hiding” because it reminds me that there’s a certain pride and freedom that comes from wearing your unique bizarreness like a badge of honor.”
― Jenny Lawson, quote from Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Queen of Babble
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