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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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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All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
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Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
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I have an amp that doesn't have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can't get an appropriate decibel level out of it.
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We haven't any and you're too young.
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I want to live like music sounds.
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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.
