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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

~Adam Mckay

Topics: Ability Amazing Complex Concepts Formulas Lewis Michael Take Them Turn

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I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or let me rephrase: I've been doing this so long that I don't have to experiment as much. You always want to evolve and change, but if I go in and I know it's a certain type of song, I know exactly where I'm going to place the mics.

~Adrian Younge

Topics: Always Anymore Been Certain Change Different Doing Evolve Exactly Experiment Formulas Get Go Going Know Long Me Much Place Song Sounds Type Want Where You

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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: American Formulas Future Involves Mentioned Past Present Time Worldview

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Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

~Bill Bixby

Topics: Comedies Formulas Laugh Music Old Old-Fashioned Resent Situation Stick Track Use Which

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Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

~Bob Dylan

Topics: Anything Complex Formulas Some Them Too Want

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Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.

~Charlie Munger

Topics: Been Confident Decade Difficult Economics Formula Formulas Next Physics Profession Same Subject Various Work Works

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Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

~Constantin Brancusi

Topics: Closest Formulas God Joy Look Mystery Obscure Offer Pure Pure Joy Sculptures See Seen Them Those Until Work You

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We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Action Approach Bullets Component Comprehensive Formulas Magic Note Overall Silver Single

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Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Amateur Available Bean Billy Creating Developing Ended Fantasy Formulas Games General Hiring Less Long Long Way Managers Money Oakland Only Players Salary Some Sports Star Toward Up Used Way Win Gm

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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Any Application Austere Degenerate Doubt Formulas General Incapable Indeed Neat No Doubt Particular Pretty Pursuit Quest Quickly Silly Theorems Very Vice Which

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