"The arrangement bore the same relation to actual……" — Michael Lewis
"The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL."
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64 Quotes by Michael Lewis
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Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The…
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The…
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In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children…
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When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
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He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his…
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My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like…
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It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar…
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One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one…
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Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.…
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Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
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I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national…
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More Actual Quotes
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
— Dennis Banks
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
— Jeff Bezos
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
— Ben Affleck
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
— Alton Brown
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