John Maynard Keynes Quotes
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Think and grow rich.
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I love working the legislative process.
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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.'
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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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.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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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.
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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.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
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The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
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A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.
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I refuse to do Snapchat. I'm not getting it, and I kind of like having mystery.
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In Morocco, he was back in his element, a shark moving through deep and dangerous waters. But for thousands of years sharks have been bred to survive dark and dangerous waters. So too, Leonid Arkadin.
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I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
