John Maynard Keynes Quotes

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

John Maynard Keynes

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• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Always

• Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Sometimes
  • Vision
  • New

• I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sound

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Live
  • Expectations

• I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Age
  • Story
  • Meaningful

• I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Great
  • Need
  • Accountability

• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Terrorism
  • Link

• I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Trying
  • Moment
  • Start

• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Myself

• I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Brother

• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Education
  • Common Sense

• In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • You
  • Train
  • Compromise

• Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Never
  • Model

• There is nothing like this extended family that is Fleetwood Mac. And I think you have to say, for all the perceived and real dysfunction that there has been, underneath that, there is and always has been a great deal of love. And that keeps pulling us back together.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

  

  Masaharu Morimoto
  • Team
  • Player
  • Baseball

• I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • Quality

• Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

  

  Joseph Mitchell
  • Time
  • Illusion
  • Waste

• If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

  

  John Maynard Keynes