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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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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Death always seems to be around me.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
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The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.
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I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.
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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.
