John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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I want in all cases to do right.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
