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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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.
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That wild animals have largely moved out of our view is of small note to many of us. We think, abstractly, that they live out there somewhere, browsing or flying or killing or doing whatever it is they do, and we think that we are keeping them among us by the sheer force of our desire, even as we consume, insatiably, the places where they live.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.
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It's cool to see a woman be like, 'This is what I want - this is what I don't want.' It's good to see someone making choices for themselves.
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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.
