John Maynard Keynes Quotes
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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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.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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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.
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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.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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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.
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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.
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I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.
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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.
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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.
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A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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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.
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I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
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As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.
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There is no better way to create a confident and meaningful connection with someone than to be self-assured and true to yourself. Remember, you want someone to truly appreciate you for you, not for your best side. There is only one you. Be proud of that and own it.
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Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
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What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
