John Maynard Keynes Quotes

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Better
  • Say

• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Different
  • Country
  • Done

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Hands
  • Mystery
  • Intelligence

• How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Memory

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Life
  • She
  • Girl

• But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Team
  • Day

• Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • God
  • Integrity
  • Thank God

• Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Up
  • Expectations

• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Hair
  • Wise

• A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Money

• His petty syllabi, the sounds that stick, Inevitably modulating, in the blood. And war for war, each has its gallant kind. How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • War
  • Words

• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Reading

• For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Remember

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Funny

• I have very sensitive skin, so I have to care for it properly.

  

  Emilia Clarke

• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Judge

• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

  

  John Maynard Keynes