Simon Kuznets Quotes
When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
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Pilates is great.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
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It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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Probably would have been sitting on the bench with Connecticut. Who knows? That's just hypothetical stuff you can't even project. But it certainly is a talented team. The growth that he has had here, I think, has been a beneficial factor for him in his overall game.
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The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
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We can get over the wrongs we do, but we cannot forgive ourselves for the wrongs done to us, for our own helplessness.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.
