Janet Yellen Quotes
An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.
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My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.
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To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
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The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
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The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
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An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.
