Ian Stannard Quotes
Expectations in the bond market have been high, thus any disappointment over the auction (particularly with the level of foreign participation) could put the dollar under renewed pressure.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.
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I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
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Expectations in the bond market have been high, thus any disappointment over the auction (particularly with the level of foreign participation) could put the dollar under renewed pressure.
