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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#character #every #his #human #human being

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#ago #allows #back #being #being quiet

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#festival #film #film festival #listen #right

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #dying #everybody #fan

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

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#display #i #kid #little #little kid

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money. ↗

— James Chanos

#default #everyone #good #greece #history

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. ↗

— James Chanos

#banking system #built #china #chinese #clear