Paul Krugman Quotes

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • World
  • Country
  • Black

• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Money
  • Government
  • Project

• When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Help
  • Knowing
  • Gossip

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Always
  • Angels
  • saw

• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • World
  • Music
  • Community

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Very

• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.

  

  Vanity
  • School
  • Mother
  • Try

• I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Help
  • Brother
  • Door

• Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Consciousness

• When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movies
  • Everything
  • Learned

• You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Culture
  • You
  • Know

• You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Skin

• Ex-cons always say, 'You never know what makes the wheels go round until you’ve done time in the joint.' This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Time
  • Done
  • True

• Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Hands
  • Creation
  • Direct

• I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

  

  Lee Siegel

• When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Depression

• I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Society
  • Poverty
  • Wealth