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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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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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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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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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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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
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I'm always focused.
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
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Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.
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Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.
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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
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Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
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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.
