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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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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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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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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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.
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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
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In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.
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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.
