Edmund Phelps Quotes
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.Edmund Phelps
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
Aaron Swartz -
I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
Rachel Nichols -
My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
Madeline Kahn -
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos -
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
Safra A. Catz
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo -
I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
Sabrina Carpenter -
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay -
I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
Hanna Rosin -
I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
J. R. Smith
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney -
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo -
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey -
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
Kara Swisher -
I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
Olly Murs -
Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
Jack Reed
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Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Frank Zappa -
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
Daley Thompson -
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
Mara Wilson -
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
Edmund Phelps