Paul A. Volcker Quotes
I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
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We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.
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I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.
