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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Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
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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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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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Both men and women have an equal right to have sex without judgement.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.
