John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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One can only be staggered by the hubris of modern artists if we compare them, say, to the humble builders of Chartres Cathedral whose names are not even known. The artist ought to be distinguished by selfless devotion to duty; but we forgot about that a long time ago.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
