Paul Krugman Quotes
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.
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I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
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Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
