Paul A. Volcker Quotes
It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
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The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
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What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
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The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job.
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I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
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When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
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It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
