John Maynard Keynes Quotes
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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Africa is the future.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
