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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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.
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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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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.
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Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
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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.
