Jerome Powell Quotes
Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
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Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.
