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"I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller."
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"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College."

"I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead."

"I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city."

"Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues."

"2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!"

"Boston is the engine of the state's economy."
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"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."


"Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices."


"My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury."


"Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm."


"Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer."


"My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges."


"I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any."
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