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The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. Tina Brown
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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. Timothy Noah
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance. Warren Stephens
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We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered. Warren Stephens
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country. Warren Stephens
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The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. William Kirby
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. Zubin Mehta
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I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. Elizabeth Warren
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Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. Elizabeth Warren
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The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. Timothy Noah
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. Ice Cube
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. Zubin Mehta
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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. Christo
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Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.' Bill Cosby
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Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. Noah Feldman
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The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia. Chris Nelson
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That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of. Stephanie Dietz
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In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors. Mark Shand
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A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote. Jane Seymour
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality. Yo-Yo Ma
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be. Yuri Milner
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When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach. Vivek Wadhwa
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape. Bill Hader
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Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense. Dennis Crowley
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It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot. Vladimir Potanin
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He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor. Bill Bryson
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The allegation is that when they told the grand jury about the process they made some misstatements and false allegations, ... Face the Nation. Lindsey Graham
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I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are. Bob Walsh
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I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it. Jim Caviezel
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It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place. Sarah Vaughan
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What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like. Brian Posehn
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I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it. Mike Marchand
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Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity. Brad Adgate
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. Herman Melville
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I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State. Rob Hummel
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We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter. Phil Jackson
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We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't. Ron Wilson
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(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday. Gary Parlin
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For the record, this is a poor decision. Gerry Byrne
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He is poor who does not feel content. Japanese Proverb
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We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French. Andy Robinson
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher. Alan Kay
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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. August Wilson
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What have they done to you, my poor child? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. Carol Vorderman