Paul Krugman Quotes

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

Paul Krugman

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• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Family
  • Job

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • You
  • Government
  • Security

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Technology
  • Search

• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• I hope I'm always learning something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hope
  • Learning
  • Something

• Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Proud
  • Australians
  • Aussie

• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Want
  • Give

• This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Serious

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Everything must belong somewhere.I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Why

• A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries told. The fringes of eternity, - God's sweeping garment-fold, In that bright shred of glittering sea, I reach out for and hold.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • God
  • Sea

• I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air-the rather nauseating stench of appeasement.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Air

• The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Universe

• I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • War
  • Fall

• I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Work

• The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Habit
  • Ideology
  • Deficit