James Tobin Quotes
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
Quotes to Explore
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
