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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I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.
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I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.
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I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.
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I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.
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What is clear is that a French aspiration for equality and a German expectation of hegemony are not consistent.
