Simon Kuznets Quotes

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Simon Kuznets

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• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Story

• Who does understand life?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Does

• I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Body
  • Down
  • Forgive

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Truth
  • Slavery
  • Lie

• We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Someone

• I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Movie
  • Forever
  • Irish

• Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.

  

  James Gleick

• We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Job
  • Society
  • Question

• I'm speechless! I am so happy to have won MTV Brand New!

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Happy

• When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

  

  Dietrich Mateschitz
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Sports

• When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Different
  • Fun

• While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

  

  Leonard Maltin
  • Real
  • Done
  • Boss

• No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

  

  Maureen Reagan

• Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Why
  • Remember

• Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Independent

• Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Why
  • Small
  • Reading

• Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Heart
  • Backwards
  • 707

• Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

  

  Simon Kuznets
  • Growth
  • Income
  • Inequality