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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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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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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
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No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.
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I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.
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He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
