Janet Yellen Quotes

Our objective in regulation should be to put in place tough enough regulation and capital and liquidity standards that we level the playing field and make it costly.

Janet Yellen

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• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Good
  • Night

• My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Dad
  • Pay
  • Worked

• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Son
  • Door
  • Director

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Vine

• If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • You
  • Bigger

• Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Black
  • White
  • Strategy

• The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Connection
  • Material

• There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Listen
  • Cricket
  • Traffic

• The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Constant

• I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Going
  • Grid

• You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Character
  • You
  • Comfortable

• Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

  

  E. B. White
  • War
  • Bad
  • Law

• My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • History
  • Picture

• p. 36

  

  Karl Marx

• It's really great to see fans all over the world.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • World
  • Great

• Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

  

  Cornelius Nepos
  • Life
  • Power
  • Wish

• My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Philosophy
  • Canvas
  • Boundaries

• I was always more of a rock drummer than an experimental drummer.

  

  Paul Thompson Roxy Music
  • Rock
  • Drummer
  • Experimental

• Our objective in regulation should be to put in place tough enough regulation and capital and liquidity standards that we level the playing field and make it costly.

  

  Janet Yellen