John Maynard Keynes Quotes
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos:tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.
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'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'
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But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
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'Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in,So shame on me now.Flew me to places I'd never been,So you put me down oh.
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
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I prepare to the point where instinct take over.
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We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.
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It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
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A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
