Paul Krugman Quotes
Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
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We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.
