George Papandreou Quotes
Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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We are all terminal.
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We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
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Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.
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When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.
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I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.
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Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.
