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"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."
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"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."

"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."

"We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?"

"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."

"I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else."

"I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it."

"Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell."

"I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years."
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"Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors."

"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."

"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."

"Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you."

"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."

"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."

"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry."

"What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility."

"One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order."

"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation."
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