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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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
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There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.
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Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates.... It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are.
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Actors don't have real value.
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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.
