Yanis Varoufakis Quotes
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.
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Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.
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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
