Jerome Powell Quotes
The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I have grown up using Colgate; my long-standing association with the brand has been very warm.
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The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.
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Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.
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If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
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What I remember about the old days is that when we had real good football teams, they had a knack for beating us.
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The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.
