Paul Krugman Quotes

The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and control many of the perks that board members count on. So it's not the invisible hand of the market that leads to those monumental executive incomes; it's the invisible handshake in the boardroom.

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• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

  

  Oliver St. John
  • Queen
  • Flow
  • Bee

• I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • You
  • Energy

• It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Fun
  • Day
  • One Day

• The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • End
  • Sad

• Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Picture
  • Person
  • Wants

• The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Worry
  • Less

• Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • You
  • Internet

• I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Perfect
  • Plant
  • Eating

• With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Live
  • Feel
  • Broke

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • You
  • Like
  • Talk

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • People

• I've been fighting for my life before and sleeping in cars and trying to find a place to lay my head. I've had situations where I've had nowhere to go. This is the easy part. I overcame life.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Fighting

• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Man
  • Control

• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Ambition

• If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Done
  • Control

• The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and control many of the perks that board members count on. So it's not the invisible hand of the market that leads to those monumental executive incomes; it's the invisible handshake in the boardroom.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Control
  • Members
  • Compensation