Paul Krugman Quotes
We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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I'm a wandering gypsy.
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
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Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
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No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.
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As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.
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I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.
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I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
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We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.
