John Maynard Keynes Quotes
Nothing can be settled in isolation. Every use of our resources is at the expense of an alternative use.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
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My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
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My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the red carpet, either.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
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Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.
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After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
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The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religion, even at times with Christianity. The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed in a perversion of Roland's great line in the Chanson: 'Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores.'
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
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I just have an enthusiasm for life.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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I'll be here when you get back.
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The Druids held the trees as very sacred.
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Nothing can be settled in isolation. Every use of our resources is at the expense of an alternative use.
