Janet Yellen Quotes
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I love girl power.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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There's something healing about tears.
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It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.
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We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
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You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.
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Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
