Martin Feldstein Quotes
What is clear is that a French aspiration for equality and a German expectation of hegemony are not consistent.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I never said half the things I said.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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What is clear is that a French aspiration for equality and a German expectation of hegemony are not consistent.
