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.

Martin Feldstein

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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.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Year
  • Graduation

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Interesting
  • Matter
  • Create

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• '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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Me
  • Relationship

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Page

• I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Mean
  • Like
  • Go

• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Employment

• 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.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dark

• Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Art
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Work
  • Music
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wicket

• There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Book
  • Punk
  • Havens

• Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

  

  Carter Ratcliff
  • Book
  • Yourself
  • Mirror

• At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Competitive

• I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen

• For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Long
  • Trying

• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  

  Martin Feldstein