Paul Krugman Quotes

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
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• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
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• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
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• Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
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• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

  

  Laura Moser
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• When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  

  Aaron Klein
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• But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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• He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou… (“Footnote to All Prayers”) Lewis proceeds to acknowledge that when he says the Name of God, his best thoughts are mere fancies and symbols, which he knows “cannot be the thing thou art.” Then with postmodern sensitivity, Lewis ponders the inadequacy of human language and perspective: And all men are idolators, crying unheard To a deaf idol, if Thou take them at their word. Even as we pray, then, we must count on God to take our misguided arrows and magnetize them toward their goal. He concludes: Take not, oh Lord, our literal sense. Lord, in Thy great, Unbroken speech our limping metaphor translate.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
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• I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
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• Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!

  

  Jalen Brunson

• I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith

• The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

  

  Paul Krugman
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