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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
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I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
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I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.
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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.
