By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.
If you always feel very uncomfortable when you are with your friends, that would be a wake-up call that you truly don't belong in that circle. Life is too short to dare to spend any moment of it uncomfortably.
I did 'Echo Beach,' a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came 'Demons,' and the opening sequence had me in my boxer shorts; and then there was a scene in 'Trinity' with me walking around in boxer shorts. It was only one scene in each ...
When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.
The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four Eng...
M: I knew it was too early to promote you. James Bond: Well, I understand double 0s have a very short life expectancy... so your mistake will be short-lived.
Raoul Duke: You scurvy shiester bastard. I'm a doctor of journalism man! Get in there and clean your shorts! Clean your shorts goddammit like a big boy!
Sammy: Can we play Big and Small? Grace: Is that a real game, or is that a game you just made up? Sammy: It's a real game that I just made up.
Jack: Grace, you are a line staff. It's not your job to interpret tears. That's what our trained therapists are here for. Grace: Then your trained therapists don't know shit.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-ran...
Laugh hard, smile no matter what you're going through, give everyone a second chance, and don't ever forget rules were meant to be broken life is too short to be anything but happy!
Don't discount your life story, because every life is a success story.
I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another stor...
Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision. Learning to listen, to recognize, to understand and...
The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.
I whispered, under my breath, an atheist’s prayer... whatever the hell that is.
People love stories. They need stories.
I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form, and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same. It's like the defining...
Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the futu...
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand,...
