John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day.
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Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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I quite like androgyny.
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Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.
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Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
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Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.
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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
