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.
Barry Commoner
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
Abu Bakr
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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.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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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.
Washed Out
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
Vanessa Paradis
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Zayn Malik One Direction
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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.
Adam Clarke
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I lost my confidence.
Pat Summitt
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
Natalie Dormer
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
Q-Tip
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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.
Hampton Sides
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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.
Pat Buchanan
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
Sam Walton
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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.
Vince Cable
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
Viggo Mortensen
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
Bear Grylls
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
Nadia Comaneci
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Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it.
Elif Batuman
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I expose people to magic, I expose them to something they're never otherwise going to see in their boring normal lives.
Charlie Sheen
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Some people can handle fame, some can't.
Jonny Lee Miller
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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.
Thomas J. Sargent