John Maynard Keynes Quotes
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
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With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
