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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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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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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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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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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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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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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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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I think I'm the best president I've ever been right now. And I think the team that is operating right now functions as well as any team that I've had. And so, you know, there is a part of you that thinks, "Man, we're pretty good at this stuff right now." And you hate to see that talent disperse.
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
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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.
