Martin Feldstein Quotes

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• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Well

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • You
  • Modern
  • Whatever

• That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • World
  • Success
  • Day

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Good
  • Political
  • Decision

• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Madness
  • Proof

• The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Paradise
  • Reasons
  • Cruel

• The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • World
  • Now
  • Plants

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Music
  • Problem

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Artists
  • Very

• Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Accountability

• There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Light

• Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Kids
  • Taken
  • Failure

• For fast acting relief, try slowing down.

  

  Lily Tomlin

• The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • Value