Jerome Powell Quotes
The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system.
Quotes to Explore
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
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We are not as strong as we think we are
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system.
