#ear

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

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

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#beating #bunch #experience #find #gangsters

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#near #oracle #poet #poetry #true

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#always #am #cane #derby #desperate

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#around #attempt #built #chance #desperately

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy. ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#change #crazy #drives #hear #i

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#believe #clothing #collectively #depends #earth

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change. ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#around #back #bit #change #come