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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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.
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Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
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In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
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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.
