- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Quotes
The extremes people notice most.
This page collects quotes built around superlatives — including a direct critique of George W. Bush's domestic policy priorities, alongside genre-film commentary on luck and poor decision-making. For a look at priority and value elsewhere, see Important quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it.
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
- Binding
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- Nov 07, 2020
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.
- Efficiency
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal Reserve and other central banks have adopted broad public policy objectives to guide the development and oversight of the payments system. At the Fed, we have identified efficiency and safety as our most fundamental objectives, as set forth in our Policy on Payment System Risk.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been poor most of my life.
- Impressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020