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ARTHUR LEVITT The motivation to satisfy Wall Street earnings expectations may be overriding common sense business ...
ARTHUR LEVITT Richard is a multifaceted kind of guy,
ARTHUR LEVITT It has been almost 30 years since significant steps were taken to improve the mutual fund governance...
ARTHUR LEVITT We have an opportunity today that we may not have again in our lifetime, to realize the vision for a...
ARTHUR LEVITT These issues are not academic or peripheral -- they directly affect every mutual fund investor. ... ...
ARTHUR LEVITT The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of t...
ARTHUR LEVITT This is outrageous that just two months ago, a public offering was done. Major banking institutions ...
ARTHUR LEVITT The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the A...
ARTHUR LEVITT We are not looking for a bit of window dressing on the same old recycled gobbledygook, ... We expect...
ARTHUR LEVITT Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you...
ARTHUR LEVITT Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their ...
ARTHUR LEVITT They have been compared to a high-tech version of morning gossip or advice at the company water cool...
ARTHUR LEVITT We all understand that directors aren't required to guarantee that their fund has the lowest fees, ....
ARTHUR LEVITT I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of invest...
ARTHUR LEVITT Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather throu...
ARTHUR LEVITT Now, we all understand that directors aren't required to guarantee that their fund has the lowest fe...
ARTHUR LEVITT Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
ARTHUR LEVITT What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.
ARTHUR LEVITT This effort will be an important addition ? to encourage the education of fund directors,
ARTHUR LEVITT How many times have we seen an analyst on television being asked to list his top five picks? And how...
ARTHUR LEVITT A careful balance of 'bright-line' rules establishing clear limits, coupled with greater disclosure,...
ARTHUR LEVITT It is time for the U.S. securities market to make this change,
ARTHUR LEVITT a way to gain and maintain favor with particular analysts.
ARTHUR LEVITT High-quality and timely information is the lifeblood of strong, vibrant markets. It is at the very c...
ARTHUR LEVITT I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about s...
ARTHUR LEVITT But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense...
ARTHUR LEVITT That also has put pressure on analysts to report favorably on a company in order to maintain access ...
ARTHUR LEVITT Sandy reacted to his times, and Chuck Prince is going to have to determine what his times are and ho...
ARTHUR LEVITT Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation an...
ARTHUR LEVITT CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers...
STEVEN LEVITT The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their abilit...
STEVEN LEVITT I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their...
MICHAEL LEVITT You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is...
STEVEN LEVITT Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the...
TED LEVITT Race is not in any way central to our arguments about abortion and crime.
STEVEN LEVITT This is a reflex rally from the depths. Psychology has improved for two straight days, it's typical ...
CHUCK LEVITT The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.
TED LEVITT Any operating system is impervious to viruses. It's just harder to do (to a Mac), it doesn't mean it...
RICK LEVITT Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of dat...
STEVEN LEVITT His positives outweigh negatives (in different groups surveyed) by multiples of two, three, four, ev...
STEVE LEVITT It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If ...
STEVE LEVITT All three of these are factors that put children at risk for crime when they grow up. Unwanted child...
STEVE LEVITT No one would disagree that restraining your child is about the single best thing you can do for prot...
STEVEN LEVITT Betting on sports is actually a lot more like playing the stock market than it is the other games at...
STEVEN LEVITT There aren't many people who succeed in doing it, but at least it's possible.
STEVEN LEVITT Some of these deceased personalities have Q scores equal to or greater than some of the live persona...
STEVEN LEVITT He's gone from someone who has never gotten a lot of endorsements to someone who's likely not to get...
STEVEN LEVITT He doesn't make advertisers comfortable, that's for sure. He is not necessarily a fan favorite these...
STEVEN LEVITT Sacred Heart is about being able to teach the faith day in and day out to whoever wants it. And when...
BILL LEVITT We were always looking to get the local clergy to share with us their teachings, their prayers, thei...
BILL LEVITT We're like any other talk-radio station in that we touch on the issues that affect our lives everyda...
BILL LEVITT The miracle story of Catholic radio is that everything conventional in radio - advertising, billboar...
BILL LEVITT What we have now is a huge over-supply...you could call it a glut...of total meat in the market.
CHUCK LEVITT What is there not to like about Lucy?
STEVE LEVITT Because everyone still 'loves Lucy' she left a great legacy behind,
STEVEN LEVITT The animals did not conceive -- the mother hogs, the sows -- the baby pigs were not born last fall a...
CHUCK LEVITT Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are...
STEVEN LEVITT As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to ...
STEVEN LEVITT The way that Zola was so productive reminds me of a wounded soldier who takes out more of the bad gu...
MARK LEVITT Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, databa...
MARK LEVITT Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, databa...
MARK LEVITT E-mail has faced its challengers -- viruses, spam, regulations -- and emerged with its reputation br...
MARK LEVITT While email has been bruised, it's emerged intact. What people are thinking now is not how I can get...
MARK LEVITT I am skeptical about the idea that [instant messaging] is all of a sudden a new, fantastic idea that...
MARK LEVITT A customer service person is usually expected to focus on a specific customer, a specific question, ...
MARK LEVITT Assuming the survey results are accurate, this indicates that many companies do not yet recognize e-...
MARK LEVITT You can't provide everything to everyone. The math doesn't work.
LARRY LEVITT It doesn't last forever, and $600 or $700 a month is a lot to pay when someone has lost their income...
LARRY LEVITT As long as the growth in health insurance premiums far outpaces the growth in wages, the erosion in ...
LARRY LEVITT If you have even a mild health condition, your premium could be surcharged, or you could be denied c...
LARRY LEVITT Most people who are eligible for COBRA don't take it. About 20 percent of eligible people use it. Th...
LARRY LEVITT I think for the industry, it is also the most significant because it has the potential -- if litigat...
LARRY LEVITT In many ways what's been happening in the economy hits them (working poor families) the worst. Those...
LARRY LEVITT Once you start to become the butt of Jay Leno's jokes, ... you know you are in trouble.
LARRY LEVITT With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits...
LARRY LEVITT The policy reason why this is bad is that it puts the onus on the voter to fix the state's mistake. ...
JUSTIN LEVITT Each of these states is on a collision course that could result in chaos at the polls in November as...
JUSTIN LEVITT The lesson from New York City's audit is that a strictly applied no-match, no-vote policy would dise...
JUSTIN LEVITT My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track c...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and bor...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anyt...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT It's HE-RO," the boy argued.
"No," the girl insisted,
"it's HER-O.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some...
STEVEN D. LEVITT I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs ca...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story bu...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work,...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to m...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poet...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just fin...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When you become a ghost
feel free to haunt me.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
STEVEN D. LEVITT I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a hig...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Personally, when I watch mysteries, I never follow all the plot twists the first time, whether it be...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT That's what Neil had to be and I didn't see myself that way and I didn't think anyone else did, so I...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT You could tell immediately that care and passion had gone into writing it.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There'...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytellin...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's perf...
STEVEN D. LEVITT The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Almost every script is anything from shabby to awful, but this one was great,
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I've played the smart kid, the funny one, the nice sweet one, even the angry one, but never the sexy...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT A man touched me: 
his hand... my thigh.

I touched him too: 
my fist... his j...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT As my story came to a
close I realized that I was
the villain all along.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like p...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whe...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until on...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Over time, some ideas do cross the repugnance barrier to become reality. Charging interest on loans....
STEVEN D. LEVITT When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, t...
STEVEN D. LEVITT But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their...
STEVEN D. LEVITT When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs—even when it represents nothin...
STEVEN D. LEVITT He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancie...
ARTHUR MACHEN Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of ...
ARTHUR MACHEN Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
ARTHUR ERICKSON Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG (...) a língua é, para o espírito de uma nação, o que o estilo é para o espírito de um indiv�...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ...
ARTHUR SCARGILL If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y...
BEA ARTHUR I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEA ARTHUR I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can&#...
BEA ARTHUR I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
BEA ARTHUR I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they...
BEA ARTHUR I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've se...
BEA ARTHUR My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivat...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio...
ARTHUR LAFFER Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo...
ARTHUR SMITH So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilitie...
ARTHUR ROCK A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up witho...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and ...
ARTHUR WINTER Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shal...
ARTHUR SHOPENHAUER The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
ARTHUR BAER If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs
ARTHUR BAER If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
ARTHUR BAER In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they tea...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG