Paul Krugman Quotes
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.
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The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.
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Folk music is always considered a good thing. There is a catch, however: it has to be 'real' folk music, anonymous, evoking not an individual but a communal personality, expressive of the soil.
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We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
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The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.
