Martin Feldstein Quotes
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.
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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
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In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
