Paul Krugman Quotes
The next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave: there are no voices, O Rhodopè! that are not soon mute, however tuneful: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated, of which the echo is not faint at last.
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'Foote,' (said lord Sandwich) 'I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter.' 'My lord,' (replied Foote instantaneously) 'that will depend upon one of two contingencies; - whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles.'
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to women's social morals. As a rule, these have been focused on the family and on charity - among other reasons, because woman's sense of duty seldom finds means of expression in other directions.
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I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.
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My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
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And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.
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I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.
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I'm more of a people pleaser.
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The next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.
