I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
When I'm acting I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera making sure I hit my marks and there is the one driven by this inner fire this delicious fear.
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things whether it's various types of music or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow hard bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
The course of this conflict is not known yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear justice and cruelty have always been at war and we know that God is not neutral between them.
I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.
I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.
I think it's useful as a famous person to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets and wondering when you're going to find out.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family I have little time for anything else.
I believe in God family truth between people the power of love.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family peace between nations and all the critics die.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.