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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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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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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I write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.
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Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!
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I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.
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The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
