Martin Feldstein Quotes
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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I'm a typical California boy.
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I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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Our choice of partners is perhaps the clearest single statement of our choice of values. Therefore, when we blame our partner for anything, we should really be confronting ourselves. Not as in 'Yes, I made a bad choice,' but as in 'How does this choice reflect my values?'
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
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Hatred is bred through ignorance. Fear is its father, and isolation its mother. Yet, we are born of empathy and so we hope to return.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
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We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.
