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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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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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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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
Antony Sher -
I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
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I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
