Peter Orszag Quotes
The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.
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You've got to have fun in life. Otherwise, wow - imagine life without fun.
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I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
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The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement in living standards. The most important factor determining living standards is productivity growth, defined as increases in how much can be produced in an hour of work.
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It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
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My daughter, Jennifer Grey, was in 'Dirty Dancing,' which was shot in the Catskill Mountains, where the great old Jewish entertainers used to appear. It was the first time she'd been to the Borscht Belt, and I don't think she's been back since.
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Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
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The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.
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Culture used to be viewed as the 'touchy-feely' side of business, but that's no longer the case. If you don't have a defined culture behind you, then you aren't going to be effective at executing your strategy.
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Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
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In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
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The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market.
