Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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I wanna live.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
Garry Kasparov
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The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
