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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Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle.
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
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The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.
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What is clear is that a French aspiration for equality and a German expectation of hegemony are not consistent.
