Barbara Roper quote: "It's unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the best-run mutual fund companies in the country is pricing itself out of the market for middle-income investors."

I have been pleasantly surprised on a number of fronts.
BARBARA ROPER

The average person usually can't distinguish between them.
BARBARA ROPER

The for-profit environment adds to the pressures and potential conflicts of interests,
BARBARA ROPER

Ultimately you can't get around the fact that forty percent of states are not inspecting advisors at...
BARBARA ROPER

The SEC doesn't have the resources to do its job. In 1980 the SEC reviewed all corporate financial s...
BARBARA ROPER

If you look at the infraction records, oftentimes it's the same firms that are getting caught, a sig...
BARBARA ROPER

The titles they use mean absolutely nothing. We have a marketplace for financial advice in which pro...
BARBARA ROPER

Who in their right mind decides we're going to lighten up on record retention policies for the new, ...
BARBARA ROPER

You need to get this stuff out in the open, make sure that people understand what they are paying fo...
BARBARA ROPER

The proper approach is to have a long-term strategy that has a balance of different types of investm...
BARBARA ROPER

The research is that the more you fiddle with your portfolio the worse you do. Investors rarely bene...
BARBARA ROPER

There's no question there has been enormous pressure from the Bush administration to think small. Th...
BARBARA ROPER

If I had to make a choice between no advice and biased advice, I'd choose biased advice because I th...
BARBARA ROPER

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, f...
ELMO ROPER

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitel...
GAYLE ROPER

Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal.
GAYLE ROPER

In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.
GAYLE ROPER

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and...
MATT ROPER

It was the front porch approach. For most of the songs, we were all playing all the time, as opposed...
BRUCE ROPER

It's hard to capture what we do live on any CD. In concerts, we play it off the cuff as much as we c...
BRUCE ROPER

We've tried a lot of different things, but with this last CD, we wanted to get back to that front po...
BRUCE ROPER

(Turbo-charged folk) comes from the energy that we create. Unfortunately, folk music can be boring. ...
BRUCE ROPER

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San...
BRUCE ROPER

Dan's a very caring kid. He leads vocally and also by example. He is our anchor.
BRIAN ROPER

We expected Ferndale to play tough and they did. We're glad to have escaped with a win.
BRIAN ROPER

This was a close the whole game. The Blaine kids really scrapped and hustled.
BRIAN ROPER

Sometimes you've just got to find ways to win.
BRIAN ROPER

Dan took the second-most shots on the team last year and I asked him to change his role. He has rode...
BRIAN ROPER

I respect coaches who use a different strategy. Scott thought that was the best way to beat us and t...
BRIAN ROPER

I thought we played unselfishly and shared the ball. Defensively, we did a nice job of contesting sh...
BRIAN ROPER

Defensively, we were as solid as we've been all year.
BRIAN ROPER

We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.
BRIAN ROPER

I wanted the ball to be in Brady's hands; he's our best playmaker.
BRIAN ROPER

This is still a rescue incident, ... We have not given up hope.
BOB ROPER

That's a positive indicator to us that there may be somebody, something making a noise down in the r...
BOB ROPER

As long as we can continue to find voids under the pile, it means that there could be somebody still...
BOB ROPER

The geologists have studied the hill, ... They have seen some additional areas that they have severe...
BOB ROPER

We have an additional list of about 19 people that we've checked with the post office, Internet sear...
BOB ROPER

Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF, Janet's leadership vision an...
WILLIAM ROPER

Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF. She has extensive experience...
WILLIAM ROPER

Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my s...
MATT ROPER

This was a good win for us. Travis was phenomenal and Nixon was a big part of our offense. I'm proud...
IAN ROPER

I don't think it was too pretentious.
GERALD ROPER

He said things to me on the bus that I can't repeat. He's a character.
JEFF ROPER

He does what he wants. He's a free spirit.
JEFF ROPER

Satterfield's a valuable kid to have kicking, and we'll use him again in the future if the situation...
JEFF ROPER

They (Massac County) have a lot of speed right now. Somehow, we have to try to combat that.
JEFF ROPER

The first couple of games we couldn't hang on to the ball. Last week, we were able to take advantage...
JEFF ROPER

We have to find a way to get some points. Hopefully, our defense will be able to maintain their leve...
JEFF ROPER

We're looking for a spark, and Crawford has played well at the sophomore level. We've found out Reed...
JEFF ROPER

The defense has had the backs against the wall and gave up some points in the first half (the past t...
JEFF ROPER

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time
JOHN ROPER

Bob and I have had a splendid, happy working relationship in which, in every respect, he has run the...
WILLIAM ROPER

This game was very similar to the first two in the fact that turnovers were the difference in the ga...
JEFF ROPER

We learn flexibility and adaptability.
JOHN ROPER

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the l...
MATT ROPER

It's pure coincidence. Our product has been under development for a couple of months.
TIM ROPER

We got a little perimeter-oriented, which allowed them to become more and more aggressive.
BRIAN ROPER

We had a real good team day. Those four kids are one and two seeds. After that, we had a real good s...
DOUG ROPER

We're just trying to get as many as we can to the regional. And there, anything can happen.
DOUG ROPER

It'd be nice if I had all dedicated wrestlers that only wrestled.
DOUG ROPER

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this ...
MATT ROPER

It was a good team win. We had good balance which has been one of our strengths all year.
BRIAN ROPER

After two years in the red, we had a substantial turn between '04 and '05, and the first quarter of ...
WILLIAM ROPER

With crime going down, all of us bragging about crime going down, when this kind of ordinance gets i...
GERALD ROPER

I don't know what Christmas would be like without bonfires.
GERARD ROPER

We need this levee. We respect it.
GERARD ROPER

The community has been very good to us and we wanted to show our appreciation. We thought of this as...
HARVEY ROPER

What we do best is business. It makes perfect sense to leverage our skills and knowledge of the busi...
HARVEY ROPER

We'll have everything from water to aspirin for the jurors.
HARVEY ROPER

We look at it as an opportunity to promote Auburn more. Any proceeds generated will aid in the promo...
HARVEY ROPER

That was crucial. I said on the bench that if we catch them, we'll beat them, but you've got to make...
DWIGHT ROPER

Our youth showed up tonight. We had two freshmen and two sophomores starting, and tonight, we never ...
DWIGHT ROPER

Basically, since Christmas, Julie has been stepping up and making plays for us.
DWIGHT ROPER

You'd be crazy not to. There's a bigger choice and you spend less money.
JAMES ROPER

A surprising number of goods are still either hard to find or unavailable online. Large gaps exist i...
JAMES ROPER

On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. H...
ROBERT ROPER

The SRB has been releasing some of its stockpiles to try and get the price down without much success...
IAN ROPER

They could certainly use the good publicity.
IAN ROPER

I think we'll be a contender in our conference.
IAN ROPER

That's a real area of concern for us.
IAN ROPER

I feel confident with either one of them on the field.
IAN ROPER

This was a great win for us. I was real proud of their effort.
IAN ROPER

I really don't have any feel for whether or not I'll be drafted. I just want a shot to make an NFL r...
KYLE ROPER

We're butting heads pretty good out there. We're helping each other get better.
KYLE ROPER

It's been a good week so far. I don't have any complaints. My knee hasn't hurt at all. It feels grea...
KYLE ROPER

The basketball history is rich, probably much deeper than football. It's definitely something that h...
JUSTIN ROPER

I think it was our defense that was the key for us tonight. We pressed all night and were able to cr...
JUSTIN ROPER

We played really good defense; that was key. We rebounded really well, and our press created turnove...
JUSTIN ROPER

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and medioc...
HUGH TREVOR-ROPER

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocri...
H. R. TREVOR-ROPER

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS

I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER

You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER

Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK

All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON

There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON

I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON

I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON

It's unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the best-run mutual fund companies in the country is pricing itself out of the market for middle-income investors.

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It's unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the best-run mutual fund companies in the country is pricing itself out of the market for middle-income investors.

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