John Maynard Keynes Quotes
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Love, and do what you like.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
