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"After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
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"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
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"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."
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"In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms."
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"The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance."
Faith
"By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity."
People
"Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market."
Time
"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse."
Money
"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."
Experience
"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."
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"Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them."
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"The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before."
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