Paul Krugman Quotes
The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
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I am not honest.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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I'm a dork!
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
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I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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I'm very protective of my heart
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I wouldn't let my children play football.
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The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.
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Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears.
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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
