#derivative

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#comes #derivative #good #good writing #i

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#bubble #debt #derivatives #explode #gdp

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together. ↗

— Eric San

#being #came #certain #certain things #could

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#dances #dead #derivative #else #guess

... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult. ↗

— Yanis Varoufakis

#economic-models #economics #markets #faith

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. ↗

— Tori Amos

#each #lot #other #songs

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change. ↗

— Jean Charest

#been #change #could #derivatives #fairly

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#around #carry #compliment #derivative #diva

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#absolutely #always #anything #asked #bands