Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes
In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.
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Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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It is probably the best validation, the best compliment: that when somebody says you are getting good things in life, and you deserve this.
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Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
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Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.
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The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.
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Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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I think I'm a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.
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I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
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I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.
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The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.
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I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
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No place has delicatessen like New York.
