James Tobin Quotes
I shall argue that Keynesian macroeconomics neither asserts nor requires nominal wage and/or price rigidity. It does assert and require that markets not be instantaneously and continuously cleared by prices.
Quotes to Explore
-
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
-
I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
-
From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
-
I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
-
I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
-
Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
-
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
-
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
-
Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.
-
My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
-
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
-
It's not about the money with me.
-
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
-
I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
-
Everything you can imagine is real.
-
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.
-
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
-
When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
-
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
-
I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.
-
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
-
In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid consistently the kinds of civilian casualties that can end up actually hurting us in the war against radicalization.
-
I shall argue that Keynesian macroeconomics neither asserts nor requires nominal wage and/or price rigidity. It does assert and require that markets not be instantaneously and continuously cleared by prices.
