James Tobin Quotes
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
Quotes to Explore
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
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Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.
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I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.
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The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
