Janet Yellen Quotes
Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.
Quotes to Explore
-
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
-
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
-
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
-
Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
-
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
-
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
-
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
-
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
-
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
-
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
-
I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
-
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
-
Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
-
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
-
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
-
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
-
I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
-
We grow small trying to be great.
-
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
-
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
-
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
-
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
-
After I turned producer, people asked me, 'Why are you taking up production? You are still so young and doing well.' Just because an actress decides to make movies, do people assume that her career is not going well?
-
Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.
