John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

John Maynard Keynes

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• The world needs some help.

  

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• In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

  

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• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

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• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

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• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

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• I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.

  

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• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  

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• America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.

  

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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  

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  • Hand
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• I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

  

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• But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

  

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• I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

  

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• When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.

  

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• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  

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• I would hate to be on a plane every day.

  

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• For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

  

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• We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

  

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• The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

  

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• I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

  

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• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

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• Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.

  

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• To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

  

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• Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Information
  • Position
  • Rethink