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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Ted Nelson -
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 -
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso -
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 -
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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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.
Taylor Swift -
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
Jackie DeShannon -
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
Pat Robertson -
I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
Naftali Bennett -
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
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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.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
Florence Henderson -
Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
Kate Voegele
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
Carlene Carter -
It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
Barack Obama -
Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!
Astrid Lindgren -
I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.
Hillary Clinton -
The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.
Jerry Weintraub -
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