James Tobin Quotes
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.
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I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old. I used to get British comics and I clearly remember seeing my first American comic: an issue of 'Action Comics', with Superman on the cover with a treasure horde in a cave, and Lois saying something like 'I don't believe Superman is a miser!'
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I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.
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You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.
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At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.
