John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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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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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
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Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.
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I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
