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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• Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
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• If you love someone, you will want to understand them and accept them as they grow and change; similarly, loving yourself involves a never-ending process of self-understanding and self-acceptance through life's ups and downs...we are finally coming to understand that love for neighbor and love for self naturally lead to love for the earth...if you love your neighbor as yourself, you want both them and you to be able to breathe, so you need to love clean fresh air...you want them and you to be able to drink, so you need to love pure water in all its forms...you want them and you to be be able to eat, so you need to care about the climate....

  

  Brian D. McLaren
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• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

  

  P. C. Cast
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• 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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