John Maynard Keynes Quotes
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.
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When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,-nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
