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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.


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BARRY WHITE People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about ever...
BARRY WATSON I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. ...
BARRY WATSON I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get insi...
BARRY WATSON Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at ...
BARRY TOOK There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just ...
BARRY TOOK It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
BARRY SWITZER I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort l...
BARRY STERNLICHT There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
BARRY STERNLICHT