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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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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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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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
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High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.
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Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
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You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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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.
