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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• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  

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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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• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

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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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• 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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• We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

  

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• Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

  

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• The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

  

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• Russell Wilson knows who he is. He’s not a running quarterback, he’s not a throwing quarterback – he’s an athlete back there playing the quarterback position. He knows that, he understands it and his team allows him to be who he is.

  

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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