John Maynard Keynes Quotes
Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
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Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
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Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.
