David Ignatius Quotes
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.
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The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
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What I care most about is representing my constituents. If that ruffles a few feathers along the way, so be it.
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If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.
