Paul Krugman Quotes
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
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America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
