James Tobin Quotes
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
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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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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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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 don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.
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In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
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Limited series ensure that we maintain the quality of the writing on the sets.
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
