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• One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes down and your capacity to be able to make a profit becomes less secure. So the trick is not necessarily to predict what the earnings are going to be but to have a clear conviction that the company isn't going bust and that your margin of safety will remain intact over time.

  Peter Cundill

  Safety, Investing, Down And

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• Sometimes people will bring up these odd things that I did a one-off from. Like, I did a 'Knight Rider,' and I'll get an E-mail from a 'Knight Rider' fan who says, 'Look what I did to my car!' And I don't know if you know about this, but there is a sub-cult of 'Knight Rider' fan who trick out their cars to look like KITT. I'm, like, 'Really? Isn't there anything else you can do? Do you make that much money? Because I have projects I'd like to get off the ground, so how about you don't make KITT and you give it to me?'

  Robbie Rist

  Knights, Giving, Car

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• I think the trick is, how do you spend time doing it but make it look like you haven't spent time doing it? Over the years you look at women like Lauren Hutton and everyone says: 'She just pulled her hair back and ran out of the door.' I've been in fittings with Lauren and she definitely thinks about it. She just knows how to make it look easy.

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Years, Hair

  "Michael Kors: Make-Up's New Man". Interview with Scarlett Kilcooley-o'halloran, www.vogue.co.uk. September 25, 2013.

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• A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it . . . but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.

  Keith Barry

  Confused, Hands, Magic

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• Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Play, Hoping For Something, Perception

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• Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

  James Cook

  Trying, Credit, Benefits

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• Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

  Pauline Kael

  Taken, Mean, Knowing

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• The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.

  Charlie Munger

  Simple, Games, Quality

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• All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

  Carlos Slim

  Mistake, Making Mistakes

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• A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, Dirty, People

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• The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Dog, Stupid, Typical

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• It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, People, Twenties

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• If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.

  Tom Ford

  Real, Men, Eyebrows

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• The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

  Dennis Miller

  Rights, Abortion, Promise

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• When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Successful, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.307, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ​Life is a series of highs and lows. The trick is to tip the balance in your favor by following your heart and taking some risks.

  John Avery

  Heart, Risk, Balance

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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doors, Details, Looks

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• One thing Fringe has is no shortage of ideas. There are so many jumping off points that we could use and have thought about. I just wouldn't want to pull a trick like that on the viewers. I really want to reward them. I honestly and sincerely feel that it's the most miraculous fan base I've ever seen, so I just want to make sure I use every fiber of my body to deliver for them what I think is going to be satisfying for their loyalty.

  J.H. Wyman

  Loyalty, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

  Billy Campbell

  Self, Battle, Trying

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.

  Edgar Davids

  Player, Skills, Best Players

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• When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes at the expense of users' goodwill and trust. When people discover they've been duped, they vent their frustration and stop using the product.

  Nir Eyal

  Frustration, People, Growth

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.31, Penguin

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• Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

  Tim Sandlin

  People, Way, Sometimes

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• My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Father, Blessing, House

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• The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.

  Kevin Spacey

  Real, Believe, Devil

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• I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

  Carl Palmer

  Real, Play, Trying

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