Thomas J. Sargent Quotes
I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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I lost my confidence.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.
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Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
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As my father started ascending in the business, people around me started to treat me different. Our lives changed. So that anxiety, that sort of resentment, I just funneled it through football.
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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
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I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.
