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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. ↗

— James T. Farrell

#almost #america #be true #equally #everything

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different. ↗

— Delta Burke

#big #black #black hat #came #carried

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#commands #free #indeed #our #poor

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way. ↗

— John Hull

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This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#coming #comparison #early #feminists #industrialized

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#america #came #care #country #deliver

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. ↗

— Ken Burns

#documentary #drama #feel #films #hollywood

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself. ↗

— James Carville

#defend #i #i think #itself #party