John Maynard Keynes Quotes
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.
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I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.
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He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
