Yanis Varoufakis Quotes
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I like happy endings.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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The world wants to like America.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
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Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.
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It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
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The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
