Ian Macfarlane Quotes
Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
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My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
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Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.
