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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The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.
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When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
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My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.
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One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.
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A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
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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.
