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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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 like happy endings.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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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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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
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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.
