James Meade Quotes
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
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What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
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When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
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Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.
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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
