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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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
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It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
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Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind of locked into things. I'm not sure where the artistry in film making is. It's usually that moment when you're on set and you're working with the actors. That's the time to play around, the moment of theater. And then you can shape things. But a lot of it is just managing stuff. It's upsetting because you get away from the core.
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One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
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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.
