The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Stuart Sherman Copy Share Image
What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and… — John Orloff Copy Share Image
The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
I was named Margaret Yvonne. Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was… — Yvonne De Carlo Copy Share Image
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
We print journalists are victims of economic forces beyond our control. We were as surprised as everyone else was by the sudden… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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