John Maynard Keynes Quotes
His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.
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Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.
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It would be peevish and ungracious after being taken to such a lovely supper in this Temple of Food, I know, but I am desperate to ask the question that begs to be posed: Just how fucking good can olive oil get?
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As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
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My dad is a little bit of a softy. I mean, he, like, cries at The Lion King, and I'm kind of, like, his little girl.
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His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
