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" I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me. "

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" We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. "

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