The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.
The filter's the best part. That's where they put the heroin.
During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.
Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.
Filters are for cigarrettes and coffee," Simon muttered under his breath as they went inside. "Two things I could use right now, incidentally.
Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
