Literature Quotes - Page 18

• My master's degree was in English literature.

  Sylvia Browne

  Degrees, Masters, English Literature

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• I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

  Hayley Atwell

  Holiday, Light, Indulge In

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• So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

  Libba Bray

  Pregnancy, School, Class

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• If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

  Louis Begley

  College, Gone, Harvard

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• Literature has become my life.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1991). “Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Life in Letters and Diaries”, Harvill Press

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• I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

  Amber Benson

  Children, Thinking, Adults

  "Amber Benson: From vampires to 'Among the Ghosts'" by Louis Peitzman, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2010.

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• My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Dry, My Favorite

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

  Eric Bogosian

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Ideas, Views, Matter

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• As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Knowing, Agendas, Facts

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• Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Opportunity, Giving, Needs

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• I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

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• I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Jobs, Successful, People

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• Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Powerful, Moving, Giving

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• Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Skills, People, Cookies

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• The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Data, Example, Analysis

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• The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Moving, Average, Order

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• The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Impact, Order, Support

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• Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Attitude, People, Want

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• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Language, Appreciated, Mythology

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

  Aidan Chambers

  Reading, Reader

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

  Justin Cronin

  Space, Individual, Theme

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• Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

  David Amram

  Writing, World, Classic

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• As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Mistake, Chinese, Study

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• Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

  Herbert Croly

  Believe, Majority, Chance

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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