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• I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

  Mary Timony

  Rocks, Boring, Rock Music

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• If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Want, Might, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.

  Kid Koala

  Crazy, Real, Together

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• Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Reading, Space

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Giving, World

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• I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

  Max Planck

  Science, Fundamentals, Matter

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• We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try to catch trend reversals. Therefore, we tend to stabilize rather than destabilize the market. We are not doing this as a public service. It is our style of making money.

  George Soros

  Style, Trying, Use

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles, essentially high margin requirements, to prevent certain instabilities in the stock market, and I think they're basically correct. The trouble is that there's a linkage, let's say, between something like the stock market and the index futures markets, and the fact that the margin requirements are very different, for example, played some role in the October '87 crash.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Long Ago, Requirements

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, Commodity, Should

  Alan Greenspan's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. July 24, 1998.

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• Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

  Charlie Munger

  Clever, Innovation, Needs

  "Charlie Munger's Thoughts on the World: Part 1". Charlie Munger's speech at the Wesco Financial Annual Meeting "A Morning With Charlie" in Los Angeles, www.fool.com. July 2, 2011.

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• There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

  William Gibson

  Soul, Events, Horizon

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.22, Penguin

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• The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Lasts, Firsts, Economics

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• Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Giants, Phrases, Shoulders

  Source: www.fool.com

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• Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

  Paul Singer

  Should, Trading, Moved

  "Billionaire Hedge Funder Paul Singer's 9-Point Plan To Save The Global Financial System" by Linette Lopez, www.businessinsider.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Most banks - with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here - have decided that they can't make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they're going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Want, Casinos

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Crime, Born

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

  Mary Oliver

  Book, Sleep, Two

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• When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Religious, Mean, Science

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled.

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• This is a derivative, if you will, of Cloward-Piven [theory]. "[Stephen] Lerner's plan is to organize a mass, coordinated 'strike' on mortgage, student loan, and local government debt payments - thus bringing the banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to renegotiate the terms of the loans.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Debt, Students

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.

  David Malpass

  Powerful, Commitment, Swings

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• I spend so much money on food, just getting the food for me is a tremendous expense, so there's no way I could even think about paying for supplements. I think of all supplements as food derivative anyway, so If I can only choose between getting the food or the supplements I'd rather opt for the food.

  Kai Greene

  Thinking, Way, Expenses

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Imagination, Mind, Vision

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• I am not really inclined to think there is any very effective regulation of the derivative securities markets that would be useful. People who go into it essentially ought to know what risks they're taking and I don't see any useful regulation.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, People, Risk

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is in that light that the authorities have both a right and an obligation to supervise and regulate derivative instruments.

  George Soros

  Integrity, Light, Investing

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Writing, Men

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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