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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• 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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• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

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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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• 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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• Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.

  

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• Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.

  

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• Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

  

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• Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.

  

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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