Christopher A. Sims Quotes
There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
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I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.
