Janet Yellen Quotes
Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
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When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.
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I understand that ups and downs in life keep wavering, and it's important to understand them and why they happen. So I learn whatever I have to and then move forward.
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Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
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Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.
