My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know.
Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.
If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
Blockchain infiltration will be met with resistance because it is an extreme change.
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
