Jamie Dimon Quotes
The problem is not that the U.S. economy won't be able to take care of its citizens - it is that taking away benefits, creating intergenerational warfare, and scapegoating will make for very difficult and bad politics. This is a tragedy that we can see coming. Early action would be relatively painless.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.
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The problem is not that the U.S. economy won't be able to take care of its citizens - it is that taking away benefits, creating intergenerational warfare, and scapegoating will make for very difficult and bad politics. This is a tragedy that we can see coming. Early action would be relatively painless.
